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Proliferate

prəˈlɪfəreɪt

Proliferate definitions
verb
proliferate proliferated proliferates proliferating
  1. increase rapidly in number; multiply

    "the science fiction magazines which proliferated in the 1920s"

    increase rapidly grow rapidly multiply become more numerous mushroom snowball burgeon escalate rocket run riot
    • (of a cell, structure, or organism) reproduce rapidly

      "cultured cells often proliferate indefinitely"

    • cause (cells, tissue, structures, etc.) to reproduce rapidly

      "electromagnetic radiation can only proliferate cancers already present"