0 present participle of proliferate
1 to increase a lot and suddenly in number:
Small businesses have proliferated in the last ten years.
This would potentially facilitate competition between microbes and reduce the risk of a small number of pathogens dominating and, therefore, proliferating.
During this latter stage, differentiation is apparently blocked, and the clonal, nonfunctional, proliferating blast cells accumulate to cause a clinical disease similar to acute leukaemia.
The proliferating response of glia to nerve injury might be different depending on the lesion site.
Consider, for example, the growth of a tumour that initially comprises only proliferating cells.
In this experiment visibly contaminated seeds were removed (otherwise the stored seeds become a proliferating mass of fungal hyphae).
Following a discussion of the nature and analytical categorisations of proliferating rural activities, four opposing tensions are examined.
Despite the best efforts of many people to prevent nuclear proliferation, nuclear technology is proliferating.
One is the increased use of training and education schemes, which are proliferating in this area.
