The difference between Increase and Proliferate

When used as verbs, increase means (of a quantity, etc.) to become larger or greater, whereas proliferate means to increase in number or spread rapidly.

Increase is also noun with the meaning: an amount by which a quantity is increased.

check bellow for the other definitions of Increase and Proliferate

  1. Increase as a verb (intransitive):

    (of a quantity, etc.) To become larger or greater.

    Examples:

    "His rage only increased when I told him of the lost money."

  2. Increase as a verb (transitive):

    To make (a quantity, etc.) larger.

  3. Increase as a verb:

    To multiply by the production of young; to be fertile, fruitful, or prolific.

  4. Increase as a verb (astronomy, intransitive):

    To become more nearly full; to show more of the surface; to wax.

    Examples:

    "The Moon increases."

  1. Increase as a noun:

    An amount by which a quantity is increased.

  2. Increase as a noun:

    For a quantity, the act or process of becoming larger

  3. Increase as a noun (knitting):

    The creation of one or more new stitches; see .

  1. Proliferate as a verb (ambitransitive):

    To increase in number or spread rapidly; to multiply.

    Examples:

    "The flowers proliferated rapidly all spring."

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