It is not wrong to refer to the USA as âAmerica,â nor is it wrong to refer to the people of the USA as âAmericans.â For one thing, we are the only country that actually has the word âAmericaâ in our name.
verb (used without object), grew, grown, growing. 1. to increase by natural development, as any living organism or part by assimilation of nutriment; increase in size or substance. 2. to form and increase in size by a process of inorganic accretion, as by crystallization.
proÂ·lifÂ·erÂ·ate. v. proÂ·lifÂ·erÂ·atÂ·ed, proÂ·lifÂ·erÂ·atÂ·ing, proÂ·lifÂ·erÂ·ates. v. intr. 1. To grow or multiply by rapidly producing new tissue, parts, cells, or offspring. 2. To increase or spread at a rapid rate: fears that nuclear weapons might proliferate. v. tr.To cause to grow or increase rapidly.. proliferation-a rapid increase in number (especially a rapid increase in the number of deadly weapons); the proliferation of nuclear weapons. increment, growth, increase-a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important; the increase in unemployment; the growth of population.