- proliferate
- v1. increase, enlarge, make larger, aggrandize; spread, expand, extend, spread out, grow rife or rampant, branch out, Pathol. metastasize; widen, thicken, lengthen, prolong, protract; grow, wax, swell, inflate; elevate, raise, boost.2. multiply, double, duplicate, make twofold, redouble, triple, triplicate, quadruple, quintuple, quin-tuplicate, sextuple, octuple, decuple, make tenfold, make numerous or multitudinous.3. escalate, step up, give a boost to, U.S. Sl. soup up, Sl. hop up, Sl. jazz up; accelerate, snowball, mushroom; burgeon, shoot up, rise, skyrocket, boom, develop vigorously; thrive, prosper, flourish.4. propagate, produce, generate, make fruitful or prolific or fecund, fecundate; reproduce, breed; be prolific, fructify, be fruitful, pullulate, be fertile, breed like a rabbit, bloom, blossom, flower; spring up, sprout.
A Note on the Style of the synonym finder. 2014.