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🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

增殖

Pronunciation / Transliteration: zēngzhí

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Proliferate/prəˈlɪfəreɪt/
verbCEFR C1 (Advanced)Top #8500 frequency
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"关于丑闻的谣言开始迅速增殖。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As verb
  1. 1

    To increase rapidly in number; multiply.

    "Rumors about the scandal began to proliferate rapidly across the internet."
  2. 2

    To grow or produce by rapid multiplication of parts, as in budding or cell division.

    "The cancer cells continued to proliferate despite the treatment."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Late 19th century: from Latin 'proles' (offspring) + 'ferre' (to bear), influenced by French 'prolifère' and English 'proliferous'. The verb form developed from the adjective 'proliferous'.

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