From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Proliferate \Pro*lif"er*ate\, verb (used with an object) [L. proles offspring + ferre to bear.]
1. (Biol.) To produce or form cells; especially, to produce cells rapidly.
2. (Zo["o]l.) To produce zooids by budding.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
verb
1: grow rapidly; "Pizza parlors proliferate in this area"
2: cause to grow or increase rapidly; "We must not proliferate nuclear arms"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
68 Moby Thesaurus words for "proliferate": abound, accrue, accumulate, advance, appreciate, balloon, be fruitful, be productive, beget, bloat, boom, breed, breed true, bristle with, broaden, burgeon, copulate, crawl with, creep with, crescendo, crossbreed, develop, engender, exuberate, father, flow, fructify, gain, gain strength, generate, get, get ahead, go up, grow, gush, inbreed, increase, intensify, make love, mother, mount, multiply, mushroom, outbreed, overflow, pour, procreate, propagate, pullulate, rain, reproduce, reproduce in kind, rise, run over, run up, shoot up, shower, sire, snowball, spread, stream, strengthen, swarm with, swell, teem, teem with, wax, widen
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