Definition of Proliferate

1. Verb. Grow rapidly. "Pizza parlors proliferate in this area"

Generic synonyms: Grow
Derivative terms: Proliferation, Proliferation

2. Verb. Cause to grow or increase rapidly. "We must not proliferate nuclear arms"
Generic synonyms: Manifold, Multiply
Derivative terms: Proliferation, Proliferation

Definition of Proliferate

1. v. t. To produce or form cells; especially, to produce cells rapidly.

Definition of Proliferate

1. Verb. To increase in number or spread rapidly. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Proliferate

1. [v -ATED, -ATING, -ATES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Proliferate

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proletarianisms
proletarianization
proletarianizations
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proletarians
proletariat
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Literary usage of Proliferate

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

1. Handbook of Diseases of the Skin by Hugo Ziemssen (1885)
"The sebaceous glands proliferate in places ((); in the depth are some sweat glands whose convolutions have ..."

2. Unsafe in Their Own Homes: State Programs Fail to Protect Elderly from by DIANE Publishing Company (1993)
"... supervision or screening of employees, no substitutes provided when a worker doesn't show up, and complaints of worker and client abuse proliferate. ..."

3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1897)
"But among the higher plants this power of reproducing the entire individual by means of cells other than germ cells, or what may normally proliferate into ..."

4. The Journal of Experimental Medicine by Rockefeller University, Rockefeller Institute, Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (1900)
"The cells, however, which proliferate under the direct actio 1 Brown, Trichinosis, with especial reference to the increase of the eosino cells In the blood ..."

5. The Principles of Pathologic Histology by Frank Burr Mallory (1914)
"Cells proliferate only to replace cells of their own kind which have been destroyed. It is commonly taught that when the highly differentiated, ..."

6. The Principles of Pathologic Histology by Frank Burr Mallory (1914)
"Cells proliferate only to replace cells of their own kind which have been destroyed. It is commonly taught that when the highly differentiated, ..."

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