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proliferate

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11 lettersPronunciation /pɹəˈlɪf.əɹ.eɪt/Part of speech verbSorted aeefiloprrtStarts with PEnds with E0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. cause to grow or increase rapidly

Word origin

Back-formation from proliferation.

Used in a sentence

  • 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.
  • 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.

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