mushroom
verb/ˈmʌʃrʊm/, /ˈmʌʃruːm/
/ˈmʌʃrʊm/, /ˈmʌʃruːm/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they mushroom | /ˈmʌʃrʊm/, /ˈmʌʃruːm/ /ˈmʌʃrʊm/, /ˈmʌʃruːm/ |
| he / she / it mushrooms | /ˈmʌʃrʊmz/, /ˈmʌʃruːmz/ /ˈmʌʃrʊmz/, /ˈmʌʃruːmz/ |
| past simple mushroomed | /ˈmʌʃrʊmd/, /ˈmʌʃruːmd/ /ˈmʌʃrʊmd/, /ˈmʌʃruːmd/ |
| past participle mushroomed | /ˈmʌʃrʊmd/, /ˈmʌʃruːmd/ /ˈmʌʃrʊmd/, /ˈmʌʃruːmd/ |
| -ing form mushrooming | /ˈmʌʃrʊmɪŋ/, /ˈmʌʃruːmɪŋ/ /ˈmʌʃrʊmɪŋ/, /ˈmʌʃruːmɪŋ/ |
- [intransitive] to rapidly grow or increase in number
- We expect the market to mushroom in the next two years.
- Suppliers have mushroomed to meet the demand.
- (usually go mushrooming)[intransitive] to gather mushrooms in a field or wood
Word Originlate Middle English (originally denoting any fungus having a fleshy fruiting body): from Old French mousseron, from late Latin mussirio(n-).
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