Proliferate vs Outbreak - What's the difference?
proliferate | outbreak |
To increase in number or spread rapidly.
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, title=Internal Combustion
, chapter=2 An eruption, sudden appearance
A sudden increase.
An outburst or sudden eruption, especially of violence and mischief.
(uncountable) A geological layer that breaks out
To burst out
To break forth
As verbs the difference between proliferate and outbreak
is that proliferate is to increase in number or spread rapidly while outbreak is to burst out.As a noun outbreak is
an eruption, sudden appearance.proliferate
English
Verb
(proliferat)- The flowers proliferated rapidly all spring.
citation, passage=But through the oligopoly, charcoal fuel proliferated throughout London's trades and industries. By the 1200s, brewers and bakers, tilemakers, glassblowers, pottery producers, and a range of other craftsmen all became hour-to-hour consumers of charcoal.}}
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English
Noun
(wikipedia outbreak) (en noun)- ''Any epidemic outbreak causes understandable panic
- There has been an outbreak of vandalism at the school.
- There has been an outbreak of broken windows in the street.