pullulate
Verbs
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(v) be teeming, be abuzz
- The garden was swarming with bees
- The plaza is teeming with undercover policemen
- her mind pullulated with worries
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(v) move in large numbers
- people were pouring out of the theater
- beggars pullulated in the plaza
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(v) produce buds, branches, or germinate
- the potatoes sprouted
- (v) become abundant; increase rapidly
- (v) breed freely and abundantly