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proliferate

/pɹəˈlɪf.əɹ.eɪt/

proliferate verb: to increase in number or spread rapidly; to multiply.

Verb

proliferate (third-person singular simple present proliferates, present participle proliferating, simple past and past participle proliferated)

  1. (ambitransitive) To increase in number or spread rapidly; to multiply.
    • The flowers proliferated rapidly all spring.
    • When no certain cure exists, quack remedies tend to proliferate and the history of quackery and secret cures is full of extraordinary forms of treatment for the various arthritic disorders.1976 March 27, F. Dudley Hart, “History of the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis”, in British Medical Journal, volume 1, number 6012, →DOI, →JSTOR, page 763

proliferate meaning in Urdu, Bengali, Malayalam and Kannada

proliferate in Urdu

کثرت سے پیدائش ہونا, کثرت سے تعداد بڑھنا

proliferate in Bengali

দ্রুত বৃদ্ধি পাওয়া

proliferate in Malayalam

പെരുകുക, ഉയർന്നുവരുക, വർദ്ധിക്കുക, പൊട്ടിമുളക്കുക, പെട്ടെന്ന് എണ്ണംവർദ്ധിക്കുക, പെട്ടെന്ന് പ്രത്യുൽപാദനം നടത്തുക

proliferate in Kannada

ಚಾಗಚಾಗ ಹುಟ್ಟಿಸು, ಚೆಚ್ಚರ ಹೆಚ್ಚಿಸು, ಅಂಗವಿಭಜನೆಯ ಮೂಲಕ ತ್ವರಿತವಾಗಿ ಉತ್ಪಾದಿಸು, ಸಂಖ್ಯಾಭಿವೃದ್ಧಿ ಮಾಡು

Examples of proliferate in a sentence

  • But through the oligopoly, charcoal fuel proliferated throughout London's trades and industries.2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion:
  • After decades of the type of mismanagement that proliferated across all the nationalised industries, the government was already aware that British Railways was in deep trouble.2023 March 8, Howard Johnston, “Was Marples the real railway wrecker?”, in RAIL, number 978, page 50:

All 40 example sentences with proliferate

Forms of proliferate

third-person singular presentproliferates
present participleproliferating
past participleproliferated
pastproliferated

Past tense of proliferate: proliferated

Origin of proliferate

Back-formation from proliferation.

Words formed from proliferate

Questions about proliferate

What does proliferate mean?
Proliferate means to increase in number or spread rapidly; to multiply.
What is proliferate in Urdu?
Proliferate in Urdu is کثرت سے پیدائش ہونا, کثرت سے تعداد بڑھنا. See Proliferate meaning in Urdu.
How do you use proliferate in a sentence?
But through the oligopoly, charcoal fuel proliferated throughout London's trades and industries.
What part of speech is proliferate?
Proliferate is a verb.
How do you pronounce proliferate?
Proliferate is pronounced /pɹəˈlɪf.əɹ.eɪt/.
What is the past tense of proliferate?
The past tense of proliferate is proliferated.

Words near proliferate in the dictionary

  1. prolidases
  2. prolife
  3. prolifer
  4. proliferant
  5. proliferants
  6. proliferate
  7. proliferated
  8. proliferates
  9. proliferating
  10. proliferation
  11. proliferation therapy

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Adapted from Wiktionary: proliferate (page history and authors); proliferate (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); proliferate (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); proliferate (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); proliferate (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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