pullulate

VERB
  1. be teeming, be abuzz
    The plaza is teeming with undercover policemen
    her mind pullulated with worries
    The garden was swarming with bees
  2. produce buds, branches, or germinate
    the potatoes sprouted
  3. move in large numbers
    people were pouring out of the theater
    beggars pullulated in the plaza
  4. breed freely and abundantly
  5. become abundant; increase rapidly
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How To Use pullulate In A Sentence

  • Therefore spodizators, gesinins, memains, and parazons, be not culpable of dilatory protractions in the apposition of every re-roborating species, but rather let them pullulate and superabound on the tables. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
  • Squalid babies, with wan, pathetic faces, pullulated on the doorsteps; they showed from behind dingy windows at the breasts of haggard women. Without Prejudice
  • But no! With frantic passion Nietzsche charged: "The Reformation, a duplication {731} of the medieval spirit at a time when this spirit no longer had a good conscience, pullulated sects, and superstitions like the witchcraft craze. The Age of the Reformation
  • - be full of; "The old cheese was crawling with maggots" swarm - move in large numbers; "people were pouring out of the theater"; "beggars pullulated in the plaza" crowd - to gather together in large numbers; "men in straw boaters and waxed mustaches crowded the verandah Word of the Day
  • Multiple papillomata involve no danger to life other than that of easily obviated asphyxia, and it is moreover a benign self-limited disease that repullulates on the surface. Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery
  • And when we read the tabloid stories of the inevitable monsters from our group who drowned in drink and pullulated in porn, our respect for ourselves, a basic element of human dignity, would be under siege. On Line Opinion - Latest Articles
  • That is, the pre-GAP square where bookstores pullulated and I could afford to see the premiere of some new play, such as a Philip Glass opera, The Fall of the House of Usher. Tale of a Venezuelan in Boston
  • It's heartbreaking sometimes to read the accounts of the early explorers and realize how the eastern forest once teemed and pullulated with wildlife in a way we can scarcely imagine now. Hoarded Ordinaries
  • - a swarm of insects that attack plants; "a plague of grasshoppers" swarm - be teeming, be abuzz; "The garden was swarming with bees"; "The plaza is teeming with undercover policemen"; "her mind pullulated with worries Word of the Day
  • His muse pullulated with dizzying speed.
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