Usually means: Increase rapidly in numbers; multiply.
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We found 27 dictionaries that define the word proliferate:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. proliferate: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. proliferate: Merriam-Webster
  3. proliferate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. proliferate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. proliferate: Collins English Dictionary
  6. proliferate: Vocabulary.com
  7. Proliferate, proliferate: Wordnik
  8. proliferate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. proliferate: Wiktionary
  10. proliferate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. proliferate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. proliferate: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. proliferate: Dictionary.com
  14. proliferate: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Proliferate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. proliferate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. proliferate: Rhymezone
  18. proliferate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. proliferate: FreeDictionary.org
  20. proliferate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. proliferate: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. proliferate: Legal dictionary

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. proliferate: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. proliferate: Medical dictionary

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▸ verb:  (ambitransitive) To increase in number or spread rapidly; to multiply.

Similar:
propagate, spread, multiply, prolificate, populate, increase, Prosper, spawn, procreate, flourish, more...

Opposite:
diminish, reduce, decrease

Phrases:
opposite of proliferate, proliferate beyond, more...

Adjectives:
latter, readable, first, inner, subventricular, dental, adult, subependymal, periosteum, mass, individual

Colors:
    emerald,     lime,     chartreuse,     jade,     forest green, more...

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Similar:
propagate, spread, multiply, prolificate, populate, increase, Prosper, spawn, procreate, flourish, more...

Opposite:
diminish, reduce, decrease

Phrases:
opposite of proliferate, proliferate beyond, more...

Adjectives:
latter, readable, first, inner, subventricular, dental, adult, subependymal, periosteum, mass, individual

Colors:
    emerald,     lime,     chartreuse,     jade,     forest green, more...



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