| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | 1. The result or product of building up: accretion, buildup, development, enlargement, multiplication. See INCREASE. 2. The act of increasing or rising: aggrandizement, amplification, augment, augmentation, boost, buildup, enlargement, escalation, growth, hike, increase, jump, multiplication, raise, rise, swell, upsurge, upswing, upturn. See INCREASE. 3. The process by which an organism produces others of its kind: breeding, multiplication, procreation, propagation, reproduction, spawning. Obsolete : increase. See REPRODUCTION.
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