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Definition of pullulate in English: pullulateverb ˈpʌljʊleɪtˈpəljəˌleɪt [no object]often as adjective pullulating1Breed or spread prolifically or rapidly. a pullulating little swarm of fish Example sentencesExamples - And books, everywhere, sprouting like mushrooms in a greenhouse, pullulating on shelves, in shoots that teeter at navel height like cubist stalagmites.
- People have had patches of their skin sterilized: cleaned of all those pullulating bacterial parasites.
- The hardest, foulest, most odious fact of all that he has to acknowledge is that much of his uncle, blood-kin truly, as of his mother, and no doubt his greatly admired father as well, is pullulating in him and in all of us.
- The condition of the theatre was such that we had to assume that the pullulating colony of feral cats who inhabit the shed had been making their own entertainment in the winter evenings.
- It had one other advantage; at a time when the young king was taking his first steps as a ruler, the Mentor, as Maurepas was generally known, provided a screen between him and the pullulating factions of Versailles.
Synonyms sprout, shoot up, spring up, develop, bud, burst forth, germinate, bloom - 1.1 Be very crowded and lively.
our pullulating megalopolis Example sentencesExamples - Lilywhite wards and the astringent smell of disinfectant had turned into a sad and pullulating slum, the saving grace being the medical orderlies who had refused to surrender.
- This was early Tharp, and pullulated with groundbreaking ideas.
- Although he never married, Hooker's flat on the Brighton sea-front pullulated with friends, widows of friends and innumerable godchildren.
Synonyms crowded, filled, packed, teeming, seething, swarming, crawling, crammed, thronged, bursting at the seams, solid, overflowing, choked, jammed, congested
Derivatives noun pʌljʊˈleɪʃ(ə)n In some areas, this pullulation of alternatives has few costs. Example sentencesExamples - A big-book writer launching himself at hard subjects like war and race and sex and ‘pullulation’ and America's remarkable decline.
Origin Early 17th century: from Latin pullulat- 'sprouted', from the verb pullulare, from pullulus, diminutive of pullus 'young animal'. Definition of pullulate in US English: pullulateverbˈpəlyəˌlātˈpəljəˌleɪt [no object]often as adjective pullulating1Breed or spread so as to become extremely common. Example sentencesExamples - People have had patches of their skin sterilized: cleaned of all those pullulating bacterial parasites.
- The condition of the theatre was such that we had to assume that the pullulating colony of feral cats who inhabit the shed had been making their own entertainment in the winter evenings.
- The hardest, foulest, most odious fact of all that he has to acknowledge is that much of his uncle, blood-kin truly, as of his mother, and no doubt his greatly admired father as well, is pullulating in him and in all of us.
- It had one other advantage; at a time when the young king was taking his first steps as a ruler, the Mentor, as Maurepas was generally known, provided a screen between him and the pullulating factions of Versailles.
- And books, everywhere, sprouting like mushrooms in a greenhouse, pullulating on shelves, in shoots that teeter at navel height like cubist stalagmites.
Synonyms sprout, shoot up, spring up, develop, bud, burst forth, germinate, bloom - 1.1 Be very crowded; be full of life and activity.
the supertowers of our pullulating megalopolis Example sentencesExamples - Although he never married, Hooker's flat on the Brighton sea-front pullulated with friends, widows of friends and innumerable godchildren.
- Lilywhite wards and the astringent smell of disinfectant had turned into a sad and pullulating slum, the saving grace being the medical orderlies who had refused to surrender.
- This was early Tharp, and pullulated with groundbreaking ideas.
Synonyms crowded, filled, packed, teeming, seething, swarming, crawling, crammed, thronged, bursting at the seams, solid, overflowing, choked, jammed, congested
Origin Early 17th century: from Latin pullulat- ‘sprouted’, from the verb pullulare, from pullulus, diminutive of pullus ‘young animal’. |