multiply
verb (used with object)
to make many or manifold; increase the number, quantity, etc., of.
self-multiplying
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a word derived from
multiply.
Example Sentences
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In a series that is built on doubles, on multiple selves, on simulacra that take over, Lynch is also self-multiplying, splitting off the analyst from the fantasist, the thinker from the creator.
From The New Yorker ● May 30, 2017
Janet was recovering the popularity which her beauty and sweetness of nature had won for her when she was a girl; and popularity, as every one knows, is the most complex and self-multiplying of echoes.
From Scenes of Clerical Life by George Eliot
They maintain that all such diseases are caused by organic self-multiplying germs, and laugh to scorn the doctrine of spontaneous generation, either of disease, or of even such low organic life as can propagate it.
From Across the Zodiac by Percy Greg
In some way—we have not had time to discover how—it's self-multiplying, so, as I said, it spreads.
From Criminal Negligence by Kelly Freas
We ought therefore to dispense with the useless and gratuitous hypothesis that cells multiply by throwing off minute self-multiplying gemmules, as well as by the well-known method of self-division.
From Are the Effects of Use and Disuse Inherited? An Examination of the View Held by Spencer and Darwin by W. P. (William Platt) Ball
