搜尋結果
proliferate
- IPA[prəˈlifəˌrāt]
美式
- increase rapidly in numbers; multiply;(of a cell, structure, or organism) reproduce rapidly
verb: proliferate, 3rd person present: proliferates, gerund or present participle: proliferating, past tense: proliferated, past participle: proliferated
- 釋義
動詞
- 1. increase rapidly in numbers; multiply the science fiction magazines that proliferated in the 1920s
- ▪ (of a cell, structure, or organism) reproduce rapidly the Mediterranean faces an ecological disaster if the seaweed continues to proliferate at its present rate
- ▪ cause (cells, tissue, structures, etc.) to reproduce rapidly electromagnetic radiation can only proliferate cancers already present