Synonyms of the word

pullulate

• v. To multiply rapidly.
• v. To germinate.
• v. To teem; to be filled (with).

bourgeon

• v. (obsolete) To sprout; to put forth buds; to shoot forth, as a branch.

breed

• v. To produce offspring sexually; to bear young.
• v. (transitive) To give birth to; to be the native place of.
• v. Of animals, to mate.
• v. To keep animals and have them reproduce in a way that improves the next generation’s qualities.
• v. To arrange the mating of specific animals.
• v. To propagate or grow plants trying to give them certain qualities.
• v. To take care of in infancy and through childhood; to bring up.
• v. To yield or result in.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To be formed in the parent or dam; to be generated, or to grow, like young before…
• v. To educate; to instruct; to form by education; to train; sometimes followed by up.
• v. To produce or obtain by any natural process.
• v. (intransitive) To have birth; to be produced or multiplied.
• n. All animals or plants of the same species or subspecies.
• n. A race or lineage.
• n. (informal) A group of people with shared characteristics.

buzz

• n. A continuous, humming noise, as of bees; a confused murmur, as of general conversation in low tones.
• n. A whisper.
• n. The audible friction of voice consonants.
• n. (informal) A rush or feeling of energy or excitement; a feeling of slight intoxication.
• n. (informal) A telephone call or e-mail.
• n. (informal, preceded by the) Major topic of conversation; widespread rumor; information spread behind the…
• v. (intransitive) To make a low, continuous, humming or sibilant sound, like that made by bees with their…
• v. (transitive) To whisper; to communicate, as tales, in an undertone; to spread, as a report, by whispers…
• v. (transitive) To talk to incessantly or confidentially in a low humming voice.
• v. (aviation) To fly at high speed and at a very low altitude over a specified area, as to make a surprise…
• v. (transitive) To cut the hair in a close-cropped military style, or buzzcut.

crowd

• v. (intransitive) To press forward; to advance by pushing.
• v. (intransitive) To press together or collect in numbers; to swarm; to throng.
• v. (transitive) To press or drive together, especially into a small space; to cram.
• v. (transitive) To fill by pressing or thronging together.
• v. (transitive, often used with "out of" or "off") To push, to press, to shove.
• v. (nautical) To approach another ship too closely when it has right of way.
• v. (nautical, of a square-rigged ship, transitive) To carry excessive sail in the hope of moving faster.
• v. (transitive) To press by solicitation; to urge; to dun; hence, to treat discourteously or unreasonably.
• n. A group of people congregated or collected into a close body without order.
• n. Several things collected or closely pressed together; also, some things adjacent to each other.
• n. (with definite article) The so-called lower orders of people; the populace, vulgar.
• n. A group of people united or at least characterised by a common interest.
• n. (obsolete) Alternative form of crwth.
• n. (now dialectal) A fiddle.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To play on a crowd; to fiddle.

germinate

• v. (botany, horticulture) Of a seed, to begin to grow, to sprout roots and leaves.
• v. To cause to grow.

grow

• v. (ergative) To become bigger.
• v. (intransitive) To appear or sprout.
• v. (transitive) To cause or allow something to become bigger, especially to cultivate plants.
• v. (copulative) To assume a condition or quality over time.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To become attached or fixed; to adhere.

hum

• n. A hummed tune, i.e. created orally with lips closed.
• n. An often indistinct sound resembling human humming.
• n. Busy activity, like the buzz of a beehive.
• n. (Britain, slang) unpleasant odour.
• n. (dated) An imposition or hoax; humbug.
• n. (obsolete) A kind of strong drink.
• n. A phenomenon, or collection of phenomena, involving widespread reports of a persistent and invasive low-frequency…
• v. (intransitive) To make a sound from the vocal chords without pronouncing any real words, with one's lips…
• v. (transitive) To express by humming.
• v. (intransitive) To drone like certain insects naturally do in motion, or sounding similarly.
• v. (intransitive) To buzz, be busily active like a beehive.
• v. (intransitive) To produce low sounds which blend continuously.
• v. (Britain) To reek, smell bad.
• v. (Britain) To deceive, or impose on one by some story or device.
• v. (transitive, dated, slang) To flatter by approving; to cajole; to impose on; to humbug.
• interj. hmm; an inarticulate sound uttered in a pause of speech implying doubt and deliberation.

increase

• v. (intransitive) (of a quantity) To become larger.
• v. (transitive) To make (a quantity) larger.
• v. To multiply by the production of young; to be fertile, fruitful, or prolific.
• v. (astronomy, intransitive) To become more nearly full; to show more of the surface; to wax.
• n. An amount by which a quantity is increased.
• n. For a quantity, the act or process of becoming larger.
• n. (knitting) The creation of one or more new stitches; see Increase (knitting).

multiply

• v. (transitive) To increase the amount, degree or number of (something).
• v. (transitive, arithmetic) To perform multiplication on (a number).
• v. (intransitive) To grow in number.
• v. (intransitive) To breed or propagate.
• v. (intransitive, arithmetic) To perform multiplication.
• v. (transitive, rare) To be a factor in a multiplication with (another factor).
• n. (computer science) An act or instance of multiplying.
• adv. In many or multiple ways.

pour

• v. (transitive) To cause to flow in a stream, as a liquid or anything flowing like a liquid, either out of…
• v. (transitive) To send forth as in a stream or a flood; to emit; to let escape freely or wholly.
• v. (transitive) To send forth from, as in a stream; to discharge uninterruptedly.
• v. (intransitive) To flow, pass or issue in a stream; to fall continuously and abundantly.
• v. (intransitive) to move in a throng, as a crowd.
• n. The act of pouring.
• n. Something, or an amount, poured.
• n. (colloquial) A stream, or something like a stream; especially a flood of precipitation.
• v. Misspelling of pore.

seethe

• v. (transitive) To boil.
• v. (intransitive, of a liquid) To boil vigorously.
• v. (intransitive, of a liquid) To foam in an agitated manner, as if boiling.
• v. (intransitive, of a person, figuratively) To be in an agitated or angry mental state, as if boiling.
• v. (intransitive, of a place, figuratively) To buzz with activity.

shoot

• v. To launch a projectile.
• v. To move or act quickly or suddenly.
• v. (sports) To act or achieve.
• v. (surveying) To measure the distance and direction to (a point).
• v. (transitive, intransitive, colloquial) To inject a drug (such as heroin) intravenously.
• v. To develop, move forward.
• v. To protrude; to jut; to project; to extend.
• v. (carpentry) To plane straight; to fit by planing.
• v. To variegate as if by sprinkling or intermingling; to color in spots or patches.^W.
• n. The emerging stem and embryonic leaves of a new plant.
• n. A photography session.
• n. A hunt or shooting competition.
• n. (professional wrestling, slang) An event that is unscripted or legitimate.
• n. The act of shooting; the discharge of a missile; a shot.
• n. A rush of water; a rapid.
• n. (mining) A vein of ore running in the same general direction as the lode.
• n. (weaving) A weft thread shot through the shed by the shuttle; a pick.
• n. A shoat; a young pig.
• n. An inclined plane, either artificial or natural, down which timber, coal, etc., are caused to slide; a…
• interj. A mild expletive, expressing disbelief or disdain.

sprout

• n. A new growth on a plant, whether from seed or other parts.
• n. A child.
• n. (chiefly in the plural) A Brussels sprout.
• n. (chiefly in the plural) A bean sprout.
• n. An edible germinated seed.
• v. (horticulture) To grow from seed; to germinate.
• v. To cause to grow from a seed.
• v. To deprive of sprouts.
• v. To emerge from the ground as sprouts.
• v. (figuratively, intransitive) To emerge haphazardly from a surface.

spud

• n. (obsolete) A dagger.
• n. A tool, similar to a spade, used for digging out weeds etc.
• n. (informal) A potato.
• n. A hole in a sock.
• n. (plumbing) A type of short nut (fastener) threaded on both ends.
• n. (obsolete, US, dialect) Anything short and thick; specifically, a piece of dough boiled in fat.
• n. (slang, usually in the plural) A testicle.
• v. (drilling) To begin drilling an oil well; to drill by moving the drill bit and shaft up and down, or by…
• v. (roofing) To remove the roofing aggregate and most of the bituminous top coating by scraping and chipping.
• p.n. A game for three or more players, involving the gradual elimination of players by throwing and catching…

stream

• n. A small river; a large creek; a body of moving water confined by banks.
• n. A thin connected passing of a liquid through a lighter gas (e.g. air).
• n. Any steady flow or succession of material, such as water, air, radio signal or words.
• n. (sciences, umbrella term) All moving waters.
• n. (computing) A source or repository of data that can be read or written only sequentially.
• n. (figuratively) A particular path, channel, division, or way of proceeding.
• n. (Britain, education) A division of a school year by perceived ability.
• v. (intransitive) To flow in a continuous or steady manner, like a liquid.
• v. To extend; to stretch out with a wavy motion; to float in the wind.
• v. (Internet) To push continuous data (e.g. music) from a server to a client computer while it is being used…

swarm

• n. A large number of insects, especially when in motion or (for bees) migrating to a new colony.
• n. A mass of people, animals or things in motion or turmoil.
• n. (computing) A group of nodes sharing the same torrent in a BitTorrent network.
• v. (intransitive) To move as a swarm.
• v. (intransitive) To teem, or be overrun with insects, people, etc.
• v. (transitive) To fill a place as a swarm.
• v. (transitive) To overwhelm as by an opposing army.
• v. To climb by gripping with arms and legs alternately.
• v. To breed multitudes.

teem

• v. To be stocked to overflowing.
• v. To be prolific; to abound.
• v. To bring forth young, as an animal; to produce fruit, as a plant; to bear; to be pregnant; to conceive;…
• v. (archaic) To empty.
• v. To pour (especially with rain).
• v. To pour, as steel, from a melting pot; to fill, as a mould, with molten metal.
• v. (obsolete, rare) To think fit.