Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to proliferate
Participle: proliferated
Gerund: proliferating
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | proliferate |
| you | proliferate |
| he;she;it | proliferates |
| we | proliferate |
| you | proliferate |
| they | proliferate |
Perfect
| I | have proliferated |
| you | have proliferated |
| he;she;it | has proliferated |
| we | have proliferated |
| you | have proliferated |
| they | have proliferated |
Past
| I | proliferated |
| you | proliferated |
| he;she;it | proliferated |
| we | proliferated |
| you | proliferated |
| they | proliferated |
Pluperfect
| I | had proliferated |
| you | had proliferated |
| he;she;it | had proliferated |
| we | had proliferated |
| you | had proliferated |
| they | had proliferated |
Future
| I | will proliferate |
| you | will proliferate |
| he;she;it | will proliferate |
| we | will proliferate |
| you | will proliferate |
| they | will proliferate |
Future Perfect
| I | will have proliferated |
| you | will have proliferated |
| he;she;it | will have proliferated |
| we | will have proliferated |
| you | will have proliferated |
| they | will have proliferated |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | proliferate |
| you | proliferate |
| he;she;it | proliferate |
| we | proliferate |
| you | proliferate |
| they | proliferate |
Perfect
| I | have proliferated |
| you | have proliferated |
| he;she;it | have proliferated |
| we | have proliferated |
| you | have proliferated |
| they | have proliferated |
Imperfect
| I | proliferated |
| you | proliferated |
| he;she;it | proliferated |
| we | proliferated |
| you | proliferated |
| they | proliferated |
Pluperfect
| I | had proliferated |
| you | had proliferated |
| he;she;it | had proliferated |
| we | had proliferated |
| you | had proliferated |
| they | had proliferated |
Conditional
Present
| I | would proliferate |
| you | would proliferate |
| he;she;it | would proliferate |
| we | would proliferate |
| you | would proliferate |
| they | would proliferate |
Perfect
| I | would have proliferated |
| you | would have proliferated |
| he;she;it | would have proliferated |
| we | would have proliferated |
| you | would have proliferated |
| they | would have proliferated |
Imperative
| you | proliferate |
| we | Let's proliferate |
| you | proliferate |
Verbs conjugated like 'proliferate'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'proliferate'
prolificate,
reproliferate,
progenerate,
properate,
protuberate,
reliberate,
vociferate,
alliterate,
comiserate,
deliberate,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
Back-formation from proliferation.
Sample Sentences
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The flowers proliferated rapidly all spring.
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When no certain cure exists, quack remedies tend to proliferate and the history of quackery and secret cures is full of extraordinary forms of treatment for the various arthritic disorders. [1976 March 27, F. Dudley Hart, “History of the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis”, in British Medical Journal, volume 1, number 6012, →DOI, →JSTOR, page 763:]
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But through the oligopoly, charcoal fuel proliferated throughout London's trades and industries. By the 1200s, brewers and bakers, tilemakers, glassblowers, pottery producers, and a range of other craftsmen all became hour-to-hour consumers of charcoal. [2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion:]
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After decades of the type of mismanagement that proliferated across all the nationalised industries, the government was already aware that British Railways was in deep trouble. [2023 March 8, Howard Johnston, “Was Marples the real railway wrecker?”, in RAIL, number 978, page 50:]