mushrooming

Definitions

Expanding or growing rapidly in size, number, or intensity.

Taking on the shape or appearance of a mushroom.

Examples

The number of tech startups in the city has been mushrooming over the past few years.

With the sudden popularity of the sport, new training facilities are mushrooming across the country.

Synonyms

burgeoning proliferating expanding skyrocketing snowballing flourishing multiplying

Antonyms

shrinking dwindling contracting diminishing declining receding withering