mushrooming

verbsprout; grow quickly

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Antonyms for mushrooming

growing

adjective. increasing

Word Origin & History

mid-15c., muscheron, musseroun (attested 1327 as a surname, John Mussheron), from Anglo-French musherun, Old French meisseron (11c., Modern French mousseron), perhaps from Late Latin mussirionem (nominative mussirio), though this might as well be borrowed from French. Barnhart says "of uncertain origin." Klein calls it "a word of pre-Latin origin, used in the North of France;" OED says it usually is held to be a derivative of French mousse "moss" (from Germanic), and Weekley agrees, saying it is properly "applied to variety which grows in moss," but Klein says they have "nothing in common." For the final -m Weekley refers to grogram, vellum, venom. Modern spelling is from 1560s.

Used figuratively for something or someone that makes a sudden appearance in full form from 1590s. In reference to the shape of clouds after explosions, etc., it is attested from 1916, though the actual phrase mushroom cloud does not appear until 1955.

Example Sentences formushrooming

Twelve years ago the neighbourhood had shown no signs of mushrooming into its present opulence.

There were nutting and blackberrying and mushrooming and May-daying—plenty of simple merrymakings—within reach of all.

The cliffs resembled castle walls rising from the buried city, mushrooming themselves into sudden arrogance.

Mushrooming where it had struck Johnny and then the tree, the slug still retained its shape where it had fitted its brass shell.

Close at hand, one of the lava-needles vanished in soundless display of mushrooming explosion.

It had been made by a mushrooming bullet, and the wonder was that the man had lived at all after receiving it.

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