proliferateverb [ I ]
uk/prəˈlɪf.ər.eɪt/us/prəˈlɪf.ə.reɪt/formalto increase a lot and suddenly in number:
Small businesses have proliferated in the last ten years.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Increasing and intensifying
- -ify
- a snowball effect idiom
- accretion
- accumulate
- accumulative
- add fuel to the fire idiom
- balloon
- bump
- dial
- growing
- heighten
- hot up
- increase
- pile
- rack
- speed-up
- spurt
- step
- step sth up
- supersize
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proliferation
noun [ U ] uk/prəˌlɪf.ərˈeɪ.ʃən/us/prəˌlɪf.əˈreɪ.ʃən/
The past two years have seen the proliferation of TV channels.