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ˈmushrooming, vbl. n.
[f. mushroom v. + -ing1.]
a. The gathering of mushrooms.
1900Westm. Gaz. 16 Aug. 3/1 Mushrooming. The mushrooming is the event of our day.
b. The flattening and expansion (of bullets).
1900Daily News 14 May 3/6 Soft-nosed bullets..appear to have been freely used by the Boers, as 10 per cent. of the wounds were caused by the ‘mushrooming’ of the core of the bullet.
c. Growth like that of a mushroom, as regards shape (cf. b) or rapidity. Freq. fig. Also as ppl. a.
1947J. C. Rich Materials & Methods of Sculpture ix. 251 For fashioning chisels... It is advisable to cut the chisel blanks 1 to 2½ extra inches in length, since the occasional fracturing of a point, a mushrooming of the end receiving the hammer blows, and repeated sharpening will slowly shorten the total length. 1954Encounter June 13/1 Over the past decade there has been a fantastic mushrooming of arts and crafts hobbies. 1957Listener 12 Sept. 379/1 Economic changes..have brought..Africans into new jobs and opportunities, and into mushrooming new towns. 1968A. Diment Great Spy Race x. 186 The mushrooming fireball of exploding petrol. 1968Brit. Med. Bull. XXIV. 189/1 Recent mushrooming of activity and interest in this subject. 1972K. S. Roundhill Prescription for Today's Missionary 11 Positions for foreign teachers in the mushrooming educational programmes..are often available. |