proliferate

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verb

1. grow rapidly
- Pizza parlors proliferate in this area
• Derivationally related forms:
proliferation
• Hypernyms:
grow
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
2. cause to grow or increase rapidly
- We must not proliferate nuclear arms
• Derivationally related forms:
proliferation
• Hypernyms:
multiply, manifold
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s