Proliferate

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  • intransitive verb. To grow or multiply by rapidly producing new tissue, parts, cells, or offspring.
  • intransitive verb. To increase or spread at a rapid rate.
  • intransitive verb. To cause to grow or increase rapidly.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To reproduce; grow by multiplication of elementary parts.
  • Specifically, in zoology, to generate or reproduce by the act of proliferation; bear generative persons or zoöids, as distinguished from nutritive persons, as is the usual process in the hydroid polyps.
  • To bear; form by reproduction.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To produce or form cells; especially, to produce cells rapidly.
  • transitive verb. To produce zooids by budding.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To increase in number or spread rapidly.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. grow rapidly
  • verb. cause to grow or increase rapidly
  • Word Usage
    "As titles for the entitled proliferate, we are in danger of becoming a nation of all chiefs and no Indians."
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    grow  manifold  multiply  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning