verb
- increased rapidly in number or amount; multiplied quickly
Usage: past tense of proliferate
Examples
- Fast food restaurants proliferated throughout the suburbs in the 1980s.
- Social media platforms have proliferated in recent years.
- Weeds proliferated in the abandoned garden.
- Nuclear weapons proliferated during the Cold War.
- Small businesses proliferated after the new tax incentives were introduced.
- Rumors about the celebrity proliferated on the internet.
- The invasive species proliferated rapidly in the lake.