Definition of Mushrooming

1. Verb. (present participle of mushroom) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Mushrooming

1. mushroom [v] - See also: mushroom

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mushrooming

mushroom bodies
mushroom body
mushroom cloud
mushroom clouds
mushroom coral
mushroom party
mushroom pimple
mushroom poisoning
mushroom sauce
mushroom wine sauce
mushroomburger
mushroomburgers
mushroomed
mushroomer
mushroomers
mushrooming
mushroomless
mushroomlike
mushroomoid
mushrooms
mushroomy
mushy
mushy peas
music
music blindness
music box
music boxes
music center
music centers
music centre

Literary usage of Mushrooming

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Preview and Summary of "The Wayward Welfare State" by Roger A. Freeman (1981)
"... Mushrooming? Whenever discussion turns to the growth of government, the magnitude of the federal bureaucracy and its rapid proliferation are prominently ..."

2. Recreation by George O. Shields, American Canoe Association, League of American Sportsmen (1899)
"Could not the mushrooming, in this case, be accounted for as follows: The outside of ... This would account for the mushrooming just when through the skin, ..."

3. Germany's Violations of the Laws of War 1914-15 by Ministère Des Affaires Étrangères, France, John Otway Percy Bland (1915)
"... mushrooming of the bullet on entering the body. The result of this expansion is to increase the surface of the wound immediately after penetrating the ..."

4. Income Opportunities in Special Forest Products: Self-Help Suggestions for by Margaret G. Thomas (1994)
"Mushrooming your forest management profits with imperial forest ... Mushroom: The journal of wild mushrooming. Box 3156, University Station, Moscow, ..."

5. Practice of Medicine by Frederick Tice (1921)
"Decided mushrooming of the ends of the terminal phalanges. Exostosis on the terminal thumb phalanx. Hand very short and pudgy. Diagnosis. ..."

6. Blast-furnace Construction in America by Joseph Esrey Johnson (1917)
"To overcome this and to protect the zone around and between the coolers from this intense mushrooming effect, cooling plates should be used as shown in Fig. ..."

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