proliferate
pronunciation
How to pronounce proliferate in British English:
UK [prəˈlɪfəreɪt]
How to pronounce proliferate in American English:
US [prəˈlɪfəreɪt]
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- Verb:
- grow rapidly
- cause to grow or increase rapidly
Word Origin
- proliferate (v.)
- 1857 as a term in biology; see proliferation. General sense from 1961. Related: Proliferated; proliferating.
Example
- 1. Weapons proliferate , including explosives and rockets in unguarded piles .
- 2. Its normal role is to make cells grow and proliferate .
- 3. For some muslim states , the spur to proliferate might be israel , for others iran .
- 4. As digital screens proliferate and people move from print to pixel , how will the act of reading change ?
- 5. If requests from application software begin to proliferate , the operating system can simply call up additional cores to handle the load .