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

Derived forms: proliferated, proliferating, proliferates

Type of: grow, manifold, multiply

Encyclopedia: Proliferate