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   pro·lif·er·ate

   /prəˈlifəˌrāt/

   verb

   • 1. increase rapidly in numbers; multiply: "the science fiction magazines that proliferated in the 1920s"
   • ▪ (of a cell, structure, or organism) reproduce rapidly: "the Mediterranean faces an ecological disaster if the seaweed continues to proliferate at its present rate"
   • ▪ cause (cells, tissue, structures, etc.) to reproduce rapidly: "electromagnetic radiation can only proliferate cancers already present"

   Word Origin late 19th century: back-formation from proliferation.

   Derivatives

   • 1. proliferative adjective
   • 2. proliferator noun

   Scrabble Points: 16

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