Definition of "proliferated" [proliferated]

• Simple past tense and past participle of proliferate. (verb)

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• "The phrase proliferated in the media even after Democrats dropped the public option."
• "Pahad added landmines, which "proliferated" southern Africa, were a big problem."
• "An enlightening experience of this kind came to Goethe's aid when one day he happened to see a 'proliferated' rose (durchgewachsene Rose), that is, a rose from whose centre a whole new plant had sprung."