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Proliferating

To increase in number or spread rapidly; to multiply.

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To increase in number or spread rapidly; to multiply.
"The flowers proliferated rapidly all spring."

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Word	Definition
multiplyverb	(transitive) To increase the amount, degree or number of (something).
multiplyingnoun	An act of multiplication.
propagatingverb	(transitive, of animals or plants) To cause to continue or multiply by generation, or successive production.
spreadingnoun	The act by which something is spread.
proliferous	Producing many offspring; prolific or proliferative.
proliferatornoun	Any agent that causes proliferation.
propagateverb	(transitive, of animals or plants) To cause to continue or multiply by generation, or successive production.
propagatesverb	(transitive, of animals or plants) To cause to continue or multiply by generation, or successive production.
propagatedverb	(transitive, of animals or plants) To cause to continue or multiply by generation, or successive production.
propagative	Of, pertaining to, or produced by propagation
metastasizingnoun	—
flourishing	Growing, thriving, prospering.
burgeoningverb	(by extension) A new growth or expansion of something.
mushroomingnoun	Rapid or explosive growth.
sporulatesverb	(biology, intransitive) To produce spores.
sporulateverb	(biology, intransitive) To produce spores.
propagationnoun	The dissemination of something to a larger area or greater number.
pullulatingnoun	A teeming, swarming, or multiplying.
sproutingnoun	The act by which something sprouts.
metastasizesverb	(intransitive, medicine, of a disease or tumor) To spread to other sites in the body; to undergo metastasis.

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