proliferate
pruh-LIF-uh-raytverbMeaning to increase quickly in number; to multiply
Memory hook PROLIFIC bunnies: LIFE makes more LIFE. Two rabbits in spring, twenty by summer, two hundred by fall! The rabbits proliferate.
Rabbits proliferated in the meadow until there were hundreds.
In context Food trucks have proliferated downtown; five years ago there were two, and now dozens line every street at lunchtime.
Similar multiply, spread, mushroom, increase
Opposite decrease, dwindle, diminish
From proliferation, from French prolifère, “bearing offspring,” from Latin proles (offspring) + ferre (to bear).