| Main Entry: | mushroom |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | sprout; grow quickly |
Synonyms: |
augment, blow up, boom, burgeon, burst, detonate, expand, explode, flourish, go off, grow, grow rapidly, increase, luxuriate, proliferate, shoot up, spread, spring up |
| Notes: | neither mushroom (possibly from 'moss'?) nor toadstool (a fanciful name) is a scientific designation |
Antonyms: |
shrink, shrivel |
| Main Entry: | blow up |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | explode |
Synonyms: |
blast, bomb, burst, detonate, dynamite, erupt, go off, mushroom, rupture, shatter |
Antonyms: |
deflate |
| Main Entry: | detonate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | set off bomb |
Synonyms: |
bang, blast, blow up, burst, discharge, explode, fulminate, kablooey, let go, mushroom, push the button, shoot off, touch off, va-voom |
Antonyms: |
dismantle |
| Main Entry: | expand |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | extend, augment |
Synonyms: |
aggrandize, amplify, beef up, bloat, blow up, bolster, broaden, bulk up, burgeon, detail, develop, diffuse, dilate, distend, elaborate, embellish, enlarge, explicate, fan out, fatten, fill out, grow, heighten, hike, increase, inflate, lengthen, magnify, mount, multiply, mushroom, open, open out, outspread, pad, piggyback, prolong, protract, puff up, pyramid, slap on, soup up, spread, spread out, stretch, stretch out, swell, tack on, thicken, unfold, unfurl, unravel, unroll, upsurge, wax, widen |
Antonyms: |
abbreviate, contract, lessen, lower, shorten, shrink |
| Main Entry: | explode |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | blow up |
Synonyms: |
backfire, blast, blaze, blow to kingdom come, break out, burst, collapse, convulse, detonate, discharge, erupt, flame up, flare up, fracture, jet, kablooey, let go, mushroom, rupture, set off, shatter, shiver, split, thunder |
| Notes: | explode is to blow up from a confined area outwards; implode means blow inwards, as a lightbulb does when it burns out |
Antonyms: |
implode |
| Main Entry: | flourishing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | prospering, going well |
Synonyms: |
blooming, burgeoning, doing well, expanding, exuberant, going strong, growing, in full swing, in the pink, in top form, lush, luxuriant, mushrooming, profuse, prosperous, rampant, rank, rich, roaring, robust, successful, thriving, vigorous |
Antonyms: |
ceasing, decreasing, failing, languishing, stunted, undeveloping |
| Main Entry: | go off |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | explode |
Synonyms: |
befall, blow, blow up, burst, detonate, discharge, fire, happen, mushroom, occur, pass, take place |
| Main Entry: | mature |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | become adult, fully grown |
Synonyms: |
advance, age, arrive, attain majority, become experienced, become wise, bloom, blossom, come of age, culminate, develop, evolve, fill out, flower*, grow, grow up, maturate, mellow*, mushroom, perfect, prime, progress, reach adulthood, reach majority, ripen, round, season, settle down, shoot up |
| Main Entry: | proliferate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | increase quickly |
Synonyms: |
breed, burgeon, engender, escalate, expand, generate, grow rapidly, multiply, mushroom, procreate, propagate, reproduce, run riot, snowball |
Antonyms: |
decline, decrease, fall off |
| Main Entry: | raise |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | increase, augment |
Synonyms: |
advance, aggravate, amplify, assemble, boost, build up, collect, congregate, congress, dignify, enhance, enlarge, escalate, exaggerate, exalt, fetch up, forgather, form, gather, get, goose up, goose, heighten, hike, hike up, honor, inflate, intensify, jack up, jump, jump up, levy, look up, magnify, mass, mobilize, mushroom, muster, obtain, perk up, pick up, promote, put up, pyramid, rally, recruit, reinforce, rendezvous, run up, send through the roof, shoot up, snowball, strengthen, up |
Antonyms: |
decrease, depress, diminish, lessen, lower, reduce |