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Verb pullulate has 5 senses
- teem, pullulate, swarm - be teeming, be abuzz; "The garden was swarming with bees"; "The plaza is teeming with undercover policemen"; "her mind pullulated with worries"
--1 is one way to hum, buzz, seethe
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Something is ----ing PP
- pour, swarm, stream, teem, pullulate - move in large numbers; "people were pouring out of the theater"; "beggars pullulated in the plaza"
--2 is one way to crowd, crowd together
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Somebody ----s PP
- shoot, spud, germinate, pullulate, bourgeon, burgeon forth, sprout - produce buds, branches, or germinate; "the potatoes sprouted"
--3 is one way to grow
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Something ----s
- pullulate - become abundant; increase rapidly
--4 is one way to increase
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Something ----s
- pullulate - breed freely and abundantly
--5 is one way to breed, multiply
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Something ----s
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