English to Afrikaans Meaning of pullulate - ontspruiten

Pullulate :

ontspruiten

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Definitions of pullulate in English

Verb(1) be teeming, be abuzz(2) move in large numbers(3) produce buds, branches, or germinate(4) become abundant; increase rapidly(5) breed freely and abundantly

Examples of pullulate in English

(1) People have had patches of their skin sterilized: cleaned of all those pullulating bacterial parasites.(2) Although he never married, Hooker's flat on the Brighton sea-front pullulated with friends, widows of friends and innumerable godchildren.(3) In some areas, this pullulation of alternatives has few costs.(4) Lilywhite wards and the astringent smell of disinfectant had turned into a sad and pullulating slum, the saving grace being the medical orderlies who had refused to surrender.(5) It had one other advantage; at a time when the young king was taking his first steps as a ruler, the Mentor, as Maurepas was generally known, provided a screen between him and the pullulating factions of Versailles.(6) This was early Tharp, and pullulated with groundbreaking ideas.(7) And books, everywhere, sprouting like mushrooms in a greenhouse, pullulating on shelves, in shoots that teeter at navel height like cubist stalagmites.(8) A big-book writer launching himself at hard subjects like war and race and sex and ‘ pullulation ’ and America's remarkable decline.(9) The hardest, foulest, most odious fact of all that he has to acknowledge is that much of his uncle, blood-kin truly, as of his mother, and no doubt his greatly admired father as well, is pullulating in him and in all of us.(10) The condition of the theatre was such that we had to assume that the pullulating colony of feral cats who inhabit the shed had been making their own entertainment in the winter evenings.

Related Phrases of pullulate

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Verb

1. teem ::

wemel

2. bourgeon ::

bourgeon

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