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present participle of mushroom.

mushrooming

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flourishing adj.
growing adj.
prospering adj.
roaring adj.

ADJECTIVE

flourishing

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blooming burgeoning expanding growing prosperous thriving

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rank roaring

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doing well exuberant going strong in full swing in the pink in top form lush luxuriant profuse rampant rich robust successful vigorous

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declining failing losing

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ceasing decreasing languishing stunted undeveloping

ADJECTIVE

growing

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burgeoning developing expanding flourishing spreading thriving viable

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amplifying animate augmenting budding crescent dilating enlarging fructifying germinating living maturing pullulating sprouting stretching swelling waxing

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crescive

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failing languishing

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dead dying shrinking

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lessening withering

ADJECTIVE

prospering

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STRONG

blooming booming burgeoning expanding growing rank roaring thriving

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boomy doing well exuberant going strong in full swing in the pink in top form lush luxuriant profuse prosperous rampant rich robust successful thrifty vigorous

Antonyms

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declining

ADJECTIVE

roaring

Synonyms

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booming thriving

STRONG

blooming burgeoning expanding growing lush prospering rank rich

WEAK

boomy doing well exuberant going strong in full swing in the pink in top form luxuriant profuse prosperous rampant robust successful thrifty vigorous

Antonyms

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barren sparse

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mushrooming

It is visible in the mushrooming of private schools in small towns and villages.

From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026

More and more EU countries are being thrown in the public spending sin bin over their mushrooming deficits, with Bulgaria expected to be added Wednesday.

From Barron's ● Jun. 3, 2026

Meanwhile, new LNG terminals were mushrooming on the Gulf Coast, and Qatar was on track to expand its export capacity more than 40% starting around midyear.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 7, 2026

In nursing homes mushrooming across the Mexican border, elderly Americans are turning up for low-cost care.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 26, 2026

Anthony told me that we were going to be joined by someone they’d met at the burn the week before, a young guy known to them only by his mushrooming nickname: Paulie Porcini.

From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan

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