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Pullulate V Breed Spread Rapidly Teeming Approaches Monorail

Word pullulate
Definition v. To breed or spread rapidly; be teeming with.
Sentence The approaches to the monorail station were black with the ant-like pullulation of lower-caste activity.
Source Brave New World, Aldous Huxley, p. 73

Tags: language::english, topic::vocabulary

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