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to proliferate
01
to grow in amount or number rapidly
Intransitive
Grammatical Information
Action verb
Regular
Present tense
proliferate
3rd person singular
proliferates
Past simple
proliferated
Past participle
proliferated
Examples
As technology improved, the number of smartphone users began to proliferate.
02
to cause something to increase rapidly in number or size
Transitive: to proliferate sth
Examples
The new technology helped to proliferate digital media content across the globe.
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