proliferate

intransitive verb

To grow or multiply by rapidly producing new tissue, parts, cells, or offspring.

intransitive verb

To increase or spread at a rapid rate.

intransitive verb

To cause to grow or increase rapidly.

To reproduce; grow by multiplication of elementary parts.

Specifically, in zoology, to generate or reproduce by the act of proliferation; bear generative persons or zoöids, as distinguished from nutritive persons, as is the usual process in the hydroid polyps.

To bear; form by reproduction.

transitive verb

To produce or form cells; especially, to produce cells rapidly.

transitive verb

To produce zooids by budding.

verb

To increase in number or spread rapidly.

verb

grow rapidly