proliferate
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
grow rapidly
Pizza parlors proliferate in this area
Types & categories
- grow hypernym
Related & opposite
- proliferation derivation
- proliferation derivation
- proliferate verb group
Sense 2 verb
cause to grow or increase rapidly
We must not proliferate nuclear arms
Types & categories
- manifold hypernym
Related & opposite
- proliferation derivation
- proliferation derivation
- proliferate verb group
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | proliferation |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | proliferation |
| 1 | verb group | Related & opposite | proliferate |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | grow |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | proliferation |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | proliferation |
| 2 | verb group | Related & opposite | proliferate |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | manifold |