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- pronunciation:
- pr
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f
reIt
- parts of speech:
- intransitive verb, transitive verb
- features:
- Word Parts
| part of speech: |
intransitive verb |
| inflections: |
proliferates, proliferating, proliferated |
| definition 1: |
to multiply or grow quickly by, or as though by, cell division and the reproductive processes of living things.
- synonyms:
- multiply, pullulate, spawn
- similar words:
- breed, burgeon, flourish, increase, luxuriate, metastasize, procreate, propagate, reproduce
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| definition 2: |
to spread or increase quickly.
Spam has proliferated greatly in the past few years, and some ways of blocking unwanted e-mails have been developed.- synonyms:
- multiply, mushroom
- antonyms:
- decrease
- similar words:
- abound, burgeon, expand, flourish, increase, luxuriate, pyramid, run riot, run wild, spread, swell, thrive, upsurge
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| related words: |
breed, burgeon, increase, multiply, procreate, propagate, run wild |
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| part of speech: |
transitive verb |
| definition: |
to cause the rapid growth or spread of.
- similar words:
- augment, breed, cultivate, expand, increase, multiply, propagate, spawn
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| related words: |
breed, increase |
| derivations: |
proliferative (adj.), proliferation (n.) |
The word proliferate
contains the following parts:
fer, lat2, -late
Latin
root
that means carry, bring
  More about this word part:
Example words:
aquifer, confer, conference, conifer, defer1, differ, different, ferry, infer, offer, prefer, preference, refer, relate, relation, relative, suffer, transfer, translate, translation
-ate1
Latin
verb-forming suffix
that means to make, cause, do
More about this word part:
The suffix -ate
primarily forms transitive verbs from Latin bases. Many -ate
verbs were loanwords from Latin. Verbs ending in -ate
combine with the suffix -ion to form nouns ending in -ation. These verbs also have corresponding agent nouns ending in -ator (navigator, dictator, elevator).
Example words:
abbreviate, abdicate, accelerate, accommodate, accumulate, activate, adequate, administrator, advocate, affiliate, aggravate, agitate, alternate, animate, annihilate, assimilate, associate, circulate, collaborate, commemorate, complicate, concentrate, congregate, consecrate, cooperate, coordinate, dedicate, dehydrate, deliberate, dictate, disintegrate, dislocate, domesticate, dominate, donate, duplicate, educate, elaborate, elevate, emigrate, enunciate, eradicate, evacuate, exasperate, generate, graduate, illuminate, illustrate, incorporate, interrogate, irrigate, liberate, locate, narrate, navigate, nominate, operate, originate, participate, populate, radiate, regulate, rotate, segregate, terminate
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