0 past simple and past participle of proliferate --
1 to increase a lot and suddenly in number: --
Small businesses have proliferated in the last ten years.
But examples like that proliferated in the intervening years, and you'd find this sort of thing on almost every page of the sixth edition.
Consequently, the number of task-suppor t tools and utilities have proliferated in meeting this demand.
The confederation's bureaucracy proliferated with the creation of middle managers who represented competition for resources with the city-state rulers but who had no dynastic pretensions.
As manufacturing establishments and motor vehicles have proliferated, air quality has deteriorated.
In recent years, the number of organizations conducting technology assessment worldwide has proliferated (35;36;64;66;67).
This book sets out a straightforward account of the opera, exposing the half-truths and legends that have proliferated since its first production in i 791.
A linear alignment of nuclei of proliferated satellite cells was observed along the damaged area.
As newbies discovered them, though, smileys proliferated beyond the point of usefulness.
