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proliferate

British pronunciation/pɹəlˈɪfəɹˌe‍ɪt/
American pronunciation/pɹoʊˈɫɪfɝˌeɪt/
to proliferate
[VERB]
MAIN VERB
1

to grow in amount or number rapidly

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2

to cause something to rapidly increase in numbers or grow in size

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Examples
1Thus proliferating the ice.
2At the dawn of the Internet era through the late 1990s, proprietary software proliferated.
3It proliferates the stereotypes about surface-to-air missiles.
4The virus proliferates within those cells.
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