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Tuesday, June 22, 2010

proliferate: Dictionary.com Word of the Day

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Word of the Day for Tuesday, June 22, 2010

proliferate \pruh-LIF-uh-reyt\, verb:

1. To increase or spread at a rapid rate.
2. Biology. To grow or produce by multiplication of parts, as in budding or cell division, or by procreation.

Look at the smokestacks, how they proliferate, fanning the wastes of original waste over greater and greater masses of city.
-- Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow
During the 1990s, armed escort vehicles began to proliferate in Lima and cars ceased stopping at red traffic lights. Professional companies fitted more and more electric fences round high- and middle income settlements.
-- Alan Gilbert, The mega-city in Latin America

Proliferate is a back-formation from the biology term proliferation, circa 1873.


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