proliferate

Domain: Universal Words

Part of speech: verb

[V] (written) to increase rapidly in number or amount SYNMULTIPLY: Books and articles on the subject have proliferated over the last year.

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proliferateEnglish›ChineseGetWord Corpus proliferateEnglish›ChineseMain Dictionary

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