mushrooming

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English

Noun

mushrooming (countable and uncountable, plural mushroomings)

  1. The act of gathering mushrooms.
    • 1972, H. E. Bates, The Song of the Wren:
      I'll lock up and go watercressing. Or mushrooming. Or some damn thing.
  2. Rapid or explosive growth.
  3. The formation of a mushroom-like shape.

Verb

mushrooming

  1. present participle and gerund of mushroom
    • 2024 January 24, Stefanie Foster, “Metro-land's legacy for today's railway”, in RAIL, number 1001, page 57:
      The enormous growth of the railway during that period ran in parallel with mushrooming housing developments along the lines.

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