MUSHROOMS Synonyms: 45 Similar and Opposite Words

mushrooms

verb

present tense third-person singular of mushroom

as in increases

to become greater in extent, volume, amount, or number the suburb's population has mushroomed tremendously in the last decade

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Recent Examples of mushrooms Sauté morel mushrooms about five minutes or until golden brown and crispy. — Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 Feb. 2026 The investigation mushrooms Bock, the Feeding Our Future founder whom prosecutors called the mastermind of the fraud, was found guilty in March 2025. — David Ingram, NBC news, 11 Jan. 2026 When one scam center is taken down, another quickly mushrooms up elsewhere. — Jason Ma, Fortune, 15 Nov. 2025

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Why wouldn’t the players want a system that pays them a larger share of the overall revenue, increases their salary minimums and gives them earlier access to arbitration eligibility and free agency?

— Jim Bowden, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2026
Even people who carry the APOE4 gene, which increases the risk of later-in-life Alzheimer’s, still benefited from a healthier middle age.

— Lauran Neergaard, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2026

Definition of increases

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The space suddenly swells with agents, assistants, clients and others shuffling through for lunch.

— Oren Peleg, HollywoodReporter, 14 Sep. 2026
The impact jostled loose a few petals before the circle of blossoms slowly drifted away on the luminescent blue Bermudian swells.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of swells

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Haidt, who is the same age as the writer Bret Easton Ellis, waxes nostalgic for many of the freedoms enjoyed in Ellis’s 2023 novel, The Shards.

— Rob Haskell, Vogue, 11 Aug. 2026
The account, SamServed, has posts that date back to November of last year, in which Smith waxes poetic about a Copenhagen restaurant called Kebabistan.

— Li Goldstein, Bon Appetit Magazine, 27 Feb. 2026

Definition of waxes

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As close cycles compress and reporting accelerates, finance professionals can spend less time on reconciliation and number crunching and more time on analysis and business partnership.

— Hemant Kapadia, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2026
As the aircraft accelerates and the conditions become suitable for ramjet operation, airflow can be redirected so that the ramjet becomes the primary source of propulsion.

— Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 10 Sep. 2026

Definition of accelerates

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The next annual release of the Resmed Global Sleep Survey, specifically whether the 39% weekly-disruption figure climbs or holds.

— Lauren Schuster, Sacbee.com, 18 Sep. 2026
The Bank of Japan meets later this week and is widely expected to hike rates as inflation in the country climbs.

— Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 16 Sep. 2026

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