mushrooming
adjective
[ ˈmʌʃruːmɪŋ ]
• rapidly growing, expanding, or developing.
• "he has attacked what he describes as the culture of waste and mushrooming costs"
• forming or spreading into a shape resembling that of a mushroom.
• "the pulverized meteorite or comet would be swept high into the stratosphere by the mushrooming fireball"
mushrooming
noun
• very rapid growth, expansion, or development.
• "our main concern is the mushrooming of unregulated hand car wash businesses"
• the activity of gathering mushrooms.
• "mushrooming makes you see and appreciate the woodland differently"
• the flattening and expansion of a bullet on impact.
• "mushrooming effectively increases the bullet calibre when it is inside the target"
mushroom
verb
• increase, spread, or develop rapidly.
• "environmental concern mushroomed in the 1960s"
Similar:
proliferate,
grow/develop rapidly,
burgeon,
spread,
increase,
expand,
spring up,
shoot up,
sprout,
burst forth,
boom,
explode,
snowball,
rocket,
skyrocket,
thrive,
flourish,
prosper,
• form a shape resembling that of a mushroom.
• "the grenade mushroomed into red fire as it hit the hillside"
• gather mushrooms.
• "the water's still pumped from a well and the chefs go mushrooming in the woods"
Origin:
late Middle English (originally denoting any fungus having a fleshy fruiting body): from Old French mousseron, from late Latin mussirio(n- ).
