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- Dictionarymushrooming/ˈmʌʃruːmɪŋ/
adjective
- 1. rapidly growing, expanding, or developing: "he has attacked what he describes as the culture of waste and mushrooming costs"
- 2. forming or spreading into a shape resembling that of a mushroom: "the pulverized meteorite or comet would be swept high into the stratosphere by the mushrooming fireball"
noun
- 1. very rapid growth, expansion, or development: "our main concern is the mushrooming of unregulated hand car wash businesses"
- 2. the activity of gathering mushrooms: "mushrooming makes you see and appreciate the woodland differently"
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verb [ I ] uk / ˈmʌʃ.ruːm / / ˈmʌʃ.rʊm / us / ˈmʌʃ.ruːm / / ˈmʌʃ.rʊm / to increase very quickly: The number of computers in schools has mushroomed in recent years. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Increasing and intensifying. accretion. accumulate. accumulatively. add fuel to the fire idiom. blaze. crank. go into orbit idiom. go up.
Definition of 'mushrooming' Word Frequency. mushrooming in British English. (ˈmʌʃruːmɪŋ ) noun. the act of growing suddenly and rapidly. the mushrooming of commercial art galleries in Barcelona. Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers. Examples of 'mushrooming' in a sentence. mushrooming.
uk/ˈmʌʃ.ruːm//ˈmʌʃ.rʊm/us/ˈmʌʃ.ruːm//ˈmʌʃ.rʊm/. to increase very quickly: The number of computers in schools has mushroomed in recent years. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Increasing and intensifying. -ify.
Very quickly and in great quantities. Used in reference to things or people appearing or multiplying. As the economy recovered and jobs became more plentiful, high-rise apartments started popping up like mushrooms to accommodate the huge influx of worker pouring into the city.
1. To multiply, grow, or expand rapidly: The population mushroomed in the postwar decades. 2. To swell or spread out into a shape similar to a mushroom. 3. To collect wild mushrooms. adj. 1. Relating to, consisting of, or containing mushrooms: mushroom sauce. 2. Resembling mushrooms in rapidity of growth or evanescence: mushroom towns.
: an enlarged complex aboveground fleshy fruiting body of a fungus (such as a basidiomycete) that consists typically of a stem bearing a pileus. especially : one that is edible. b. : fungus. 2. : upstart. 3. : something resembling a mushroom. mushroom. 2 of 2. verb. mushroomed; mushrooming; mushrooms.
Synonyms for MUSHROOMING: increase, accumulating, accumulation, proliferation, addition, multiplication, growth, doubling; Antonyms of MUSHROOMING: decrease, reduction, contracting, diminishing, shrinkage, shrinking, lowering, contraction.
