Making and creating
Synonyms for proliferate
Synonyms for proliferate: multiply, abound and grow. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 3 synonyms for proliferate
Interchangeable with proliferate in this sense
Audited under proliferate's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one proliferate carries in that sense.
- multiplyverb, in the sense "to increase rapidly in number"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name proliferate as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
one of these comes from proliferate's own entry in the bank, and two were audited from the other word's side of the pair. Both directions were read by a human, and only the sense quoted differs.
to increase rapidly in number
Cheap smartphones proliferate across a region within just a few years.
The true synonym
multiply
Same sentence, swapped: Cheap smartphones multiply across a region within just a few years.
Close but different
Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.
- malfunction
- depreciate
- disappear
Where proliferate turns up in the game
proliferate is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 1, Foothills. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzle where proliferate is the trap
- languishverb, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is molder, in the sense "to remain neglected or in a wretched state for a long time", and proliferate is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play proliferate
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so proliferate reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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The ring widens as it goes, from making and creating at Foothills outward to the whole bank.
A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. proliferate carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.