Proliferate

Definition: Proliferate

Proliferate

Verb

1. Grow rapidly; "Pizza parlors proliferate in this area".

2. Grow or reproduce rapidly; "Health food shops proliferate in this region".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "proliferate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references)

Etymology: Proliferate \Pro*lif"er*ate\, transitive verb. [Latin expression proles offspring ferre to bear.]. (Websters 1913)

Crosswords: Proliferate

Health

Scientists now know that oligodendrocytes may proliferate and form new myelin after an attack. (references)

Business

As a handful of U.S. firms are well aware, user-friendly products proliferate quickly, whether or not the producer has a representative in China and whether or not the producer is being properly paid for its product. (references)

As a recent Far Eastern Economic Review (FEER) story, "What's Up Doc," Feb. 24, 2000, highlighted, privately provided healthcare is rapidly on the rise in China as private clinics and hospitals proliferate across the country; in this article, Chia Chee Keong, senior vice-president of Vista Healthcare Asia, commented, "there is a burgeoning Chinese population that can afford private health care." However, while both Chinese and foreign providers are attracting a growing number of patients from varying socio-economic levels, privately provided healthcare represents a microscopic portion of the total medical services market and is still unaffordable for the vast majority of Chinese. (references)

Economic History

Nepal

There are nearly 200 cable television operators nationwide, and satellite dishes to receive television broadcasts proliferate. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Albanian

përhapem (dilate, enlarge, expatiate, extend, get about, get along, outspread, overreach, overspread, permeate, pervade, Ravel, reach, spill out, spread, transpire), shumohem, shumëzohet, shtohem (accrue, augment, breed, flare up, grow, multiply, propagate, pullulate, stiffen, swell, wax), riprodhohet. (various references)

Arabic 

‏تكاثر (breed, generation, increase, luxuriate, mushroom, proliferation, propagate, propagation, prosper, replicate, reproduce, reproduction, spawn, swarm), ‏توالد (breed, luxuriate, proliferation, propagate, propagation, replicate, reproduce, reproduction, spawn), ‏إكثار, ‏ظهور براعم. (various references)

Bulgarian 

развивам се чрез пролиферация, размножавам чрез пъпкуване, размножавам чрез пролиферация, разпространявам се (circulate, get about, travel). (various references)

Chinese 

激增. (various references)

Czech

rozmnožit (enlarge), množit (multiply). (various references)

Farsi 

پربارشدن , کثیرشدن , زیادشدن (Augment, Gain, Grow, Increase, Mount, Wax), بسطوتوسعه یافتن . (various references)

French

proliférer. (various references)

German

wuchern (be rampant, deal in secondhand goods, grow profusely, grow rampant, grow ranks, practice usury, profiteer, straggle, usuries, usuriousness). (various references)

Greek 

πληθύνω (increase), πολλαπλασιάζω (amplify, multiply, multiply by, propagate), αυξάνω (accrue, amplify, augment, boost, grow, heighten, increase, raise, wax). (various references)

Hebrew 

לפרות ולרבות, ל�"תרבות (breed, increase, multiply, reproduce). (various references)

Hungarian

szaporodik (engender, to add, to augment, to multiply, to proliferate, to propagate, to propagate oneself, to reproduce), burjánzik (luxuriate, to luxuriate, to proliferate, to propagate, to propagate oneself, to run riot, to sprawl). (various references)

Italian

proliferare. (various references)

Pig Latin

oliferatepray

Portuguese

proliferar (pullulate, teem), multiplicar-se (multiply). (various references)

Russian 

быстро увеличиваться, пролиферировать. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

proliferisati, razmnožiti se (breed, grow). (various references)

Spanish

proliferar. (various references)

Swedish

växa snabbt (mushroom), sprida (bestrew, circulate, cirkulate, deploy, diffuse, disject, disperse, distribute, emit, hawk about, propagate, put about, radiate, send out, shed, sprawl, spread, stagger). (various references)

Turkish

tomurcuklanmak (bud, burgeon, burst into bud, gemmate, pullulate), üremek (be reproduced, increase, increase in numbers, propagate, pullulate), çoğalmak (accrue, augment, breed, gain, go off, heighten, increase, mount up, multiply, pullulate, reproduce). (various references)

Ukrainian

розмножуватися (breed, increase, multiply, propagate, pullulate), проліферувати, породжувати (breed, bring forth, engender, father, gender, generate, germinate, mother, originate, procreate, reproduce, spawn). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "proliferate": proliferated, proliferates. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Proliferate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: poliferate, pomifera, prolifearte, prolifer, Prolifera, proliferarte, proliferat, proliferator, prolifirate, proliforate. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: perfoliate.

-2 letters: arteriole, perforate, profiteer.

-3 letters: aerolite, falterer, featlier, filterer, firetrap, floatier, forepart, loiterer, palterer, paltrier, pearlier, pearlite, perorate, petiolar, pilferer, portiere, portlier, pretrial, priorate, profiler, profiter, refilter, retailer, retailor.

-4 letters: airport, alerter, alterer, atelier, earlier, ferrate, ferrite, fertile, filaree, firepot, fleapit, flirter, floater, foliate, frailer, leafier, learier, loftier, operate, parolee, partier, pearler, pearter.

+1 letter: proliferated, proliferates.

+2 letters: proliferative.

+4 letters: nonpreferential, trifluoperazine.

+5 letters: performabilities, trifluoperazines.