| 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: | abound |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | exist in abundance |
Synonyms: |
be alive with, be all over the place, be knee deep in, be no end to, be plentiful, be thick with, be up to one's ears in, crawl with, crowd, flourish, flow, have a full plate, infest, overflow, proliferate, swarm, swell, teem, thrive |
Antonyms: |
deficient, fail, lack, need, short, want |
| Main Entry: | branch off/branch out |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | extend beyond main part |
Synonyms: |
add to, develop, diverge, diversify, divide, enlarge, expand, extend, fork, grow, increase, multiply, part, proliferate, ramify, separate, spread out |
Antonyms: |
lessen, shrink |
| Main Entry: | increase |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | add or grow |
Synonyms: |
advance, aggrandize, aggravate, amplify, annex, augment, boost, broaden, build, build up, deepen, develop, dilate, distend, double, enhance, enlarge, escalate, exaggerate, expand, extend, further, heighten, inflate, intensify, lengthen, magnify, mark up, mount, multiply, pad, progress, proliferate, prolong, protract, pullulate, raise, redouble, reinforce, rise, sharpen, slap on, snowball, spread, step up, strengthen, supplement, swarm, swell, tack on, teem, thicken, triple, wax, widen |
Antonyms: |
decrease, deplete, diminish, lose, subtract |
| Main Entry: | multiply |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | increase; reproduce |
Synonyms: |
accumulate, add, aggrandize, aggregate, augment, boost, breed, build up, compound, cube, double, enlarge, expand, extend, generate, heighten, magnify, manifold, mount, populate, procreate, produce, proliferate, propagate, raise, repeat, rise, spread, square |
Antonyms: |
decrease, divide, lessen, reduce |
| 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: | procreate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | reproduce |
Synonyms: |
beget, breed, conceive, create, engender, father, generate, get, give birth to, hatch, impregnate, make, mother, multiply, originate, parent, produce, progenerate, proliferate, propagate, sire, spawn |
Antonyms: |
kill |
| Main Entry: | propagate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | breed, reproduce |
Synonyms: |
bear, beget, engender, father, fecundate, fertilize, generate, grow, impregnate, increase, inseminate, make pregnant, mother, multiply, originate, procreate, produce, proliferate, raise, sire |
Antonyms: |
destroy, kill |
| Main Entry: | radiate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | give off; scatter |
Synonyms: |
afford, beam, branch out, broadcast, circulate, diffuse, disseminate, distribute, diverge, emanate, emit, expand, give out, gleam, glitter, illumine, irradiate, issue, light up, pour, proliferate, propagate, ramble, ramify, send out, shed, shine, shoot out, spread, spread out, sprinkle, strew, throw out, transmit, yield |
Antonyms: |
collect, gather |
| Main Entry: | reproduce |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make something new; give birth |
Synonyms: |
bear, beget, breed, engender, father, fecundate, generate, hatch, impregnate, mother, multiply, procreate, produce young, progenerate, proliferate, propagate, repopulate, sire, spawn |
Antonyms: |
abort, kill |