Associations to the word «Proliferate»

Wiktionary

PROLIFERATE, verb. To increase in number or spread rapidly.

Dictionary definition

PROLIFERATE, verb. Grow rapidly; "Pizza parlors proliferate in this area".
PROLIFERATE, verb. Cause to grow or increase rapidly; "We must not proliferate nuclear arms".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats