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Verb: proliferate  pru'li-fu`reyt
  1. Grow rapidly
    "Pizza parlours proliferate in this area"
     
  2. Cause to grow or increase rapidly
    "We must not proliferate nuclear arms"

Derived forms: proliferating, proliferates, proliferated

See also: proliferation

Type of: grow, manifold, multiply

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