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Pullulate

verb
1.
Be teeming, be abuzz.  Synonyms: swarm, teem.  "The plaza is teeming with undercover policemen" , "Her mind pullulated with worries"
2.
Move in large numbers.  Synonyms: pour, stream, swarm, teem.  "Beggars pullulated in the plaza"
3.
Produce buds, branches, or germinate.  Synonyms: bourgeon, burgeon forth, germinate, shoot, sprout, spud.
4.
Become abundant; increase rapidly.
5.
Breed freely and abundantly.



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"Pullulate" Quotes from Famous Books



... of Ypres, after the war, is plain. It will instantly become one of the show-places of the world. Hotels will appear out of the ground, guides and touts will pullulate at the railway station, the tour of the ruins will be mapped out, and the tourists and globe- trotters of the whole planet will follow that tour in batches like staring sheep. Much money will be amassed by a few persons out of the exhibition of misfortune and woe. A sinister fate for a community! ...
— Over There • Arnold Bennett



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