All 5 Uses of
proliferate
in
One Hundred Years of Solitude
- During lunch, commenting with General Moncada about that disconcerting proliferation, she expressed the desire for Colonel Aureliano Buendia to come back someday and gather all of his sons together in the house.†
Chpt 8
- In a few years, without effort, simply by luck, he had accumulated one of the largest fortunes in the swamp thanks to the supernatural proliferation of his animals.†
Chpt 10 *
- All he had to do was to take Petra Cores to his breeding grounds and have her ride across his land in order to have every animal marked with his brand succumb to the irremediable plague of proliferation.†
Chpt 10
- At first Aureliano Segundo did not notice the alarming proportions of the proliferation.†
Chpt 10
- In the room devoured by rubble, whose unchecked proliferation had finally defeated it, he thought about the best way to frame the request, but when he found Fernanda taking her meal from the embers, which was his only chance to speak to her, the laboriously formulated request stuck in his throat and he lost his voice.†
Chpt 18
Definition:
to rapidly grow or increase in number