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mushroomed

VERB

sprout; grow quickly

Synonyms

STRONGEST

boom burgeon expand explode flourish proliferate shoot up

STRONG

augment burst detonate grow increase luxuriate spread

WEAK

blow up go off grow rapidly spring up

Antonyms

STRONGEST

fail shrink

STRONG

decrease diminish

WEAK

shrivel

Example Sentences

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That image mushroomed into an entire online subculture and inspired a teenager named Kane Parsons to make a series of hugely popular videos on YouTube.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 31, 2026

The resident population doubled since passing the two-million mark in 2015, as brand-new urban areas mushroomed along the coast and in the desert.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026

This was the version of reality she lived after early mental health issues mushroomed into full-blown psychosis.

From BBC • Feb. 6, 2026

It soon mushroomed from there to other infrastructure companies, cloud providers, and energy firms.

From Barron's • Dec. 12, 2025

Again, racial equality was being forced upon the South by the federal government, and by 1956, Southern white opposition to desegregation mushroomed into a vicious backlash.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander