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also doubling, quadrupling, tripling; growth, rise, spread; enlargement, escalation, expansion; amplification, distention, inflation; accretion, accrual, augmentation; extension, lengthening

Antonyms

decrease

multiplication sign noun 1 : TIMES SIGN

2 : a centered dot indicating multiplication

mul·ti·plic·i·ty noun, plural -ties : a great number or variety

mul·ti·pli·er noun : one that multiplies; especially : a number by which another number is multiplied

mul·ti·ply verb -plied; -ply·ing 1 : to increase in number (as by breeding)

2 : to find the product of by multiplication; also : to perform multiplication

Synonyms

accumulate, appreciate, balloon, build, burgeon, enlarge, escalate, expand, increase, mount, mushroom, proliferate, rise, snowball, swell, wax—more at INCREASE

add, aggrandize, amplify, augment, boost, compound, enlarge, escalate, expand, extend, increase, raise, swell, up—more at INCREASE

breed, procreate, propagate, reproduce—more at PROCREATE

mul·ti·pur·pose adjective : having or serving several purposes

mul·ti·ra·cial adjective : composed of, involving, or representing various races

mul·ti·sense adjective : having several meanings <~ words>

mul·ti·sto·ry adjective : having several stories <~ buildings>

mul·ti·task·ing noun 1 : the concurrent performance of several jobs by a computer

2 : the performance of multiple tasks at one time

— mul·ti·task verb

— mul·ti·task·er noun

mul·ti·tude noun : a great number

Synonyms

army, crowd, crush, drove, flock, horde, host, legion, mob, press, swarm, throng—more at CROWD

mul·ti·tu·di·nous adjective : existing in a great multitude

Synonyms

many, multiple, numerous—more at MANY

mul·ti·unit adjective : having several units

mul·ti·vi·ta·min adjective : containing several vitamins and esp. all known to be essential to health

— multivitamin noun

1mum adjective : making no utterance : SILENT

Synonyms

dumb, mute, silent, speechless, uncommunicative—more at SILENT

2mum noun : CHRYSANTHEMUM

3mum chiefly British variant of MOM

1mumble verb mum·bled; mum·bling : to speak in a low indistinct manner

— mum·bler noun

— mum·bly adjective

Synonyms

mouth, murmur, mutter; also babble, blab, chatter, drivel, gabble, gibber, maunder, jabber, prattle, ramble; breathe, gasp, pant, whisper

Antonyms

speak out, speak up

2mumble noun : a low confused indistinct utterance

Synonyms

murmur, mutter; also undertone, whisper; babble, babbling, blab, blabbing, chatter, chattering, drivel, driveling, gabble, gabbling, jabber, jabbering, prattle, prattling, rambling

mum·ble·ty–peg also mum·ble–the–peg noun : a game in which the players try to flip a knife from various positions so that the blade will stick into the ground

mum·bo jum·bo noun 1 : a complicated ritual with elaborate trappings

2 : unnecessarily involved and incomprehensible language : GIBBERISH, NONSENSE

mum·mer noun 1 a : a performer in a pantomime

b : ACTOR

2 : a person who goes merrymaking in disguise during festivals

— mum·mery noun

Synonyms

mime, mimic, pantomime

mum·my noun, plural mummies [ORIGIN: ME mummie powdered parts of a mummified body used as a drug, fr. AF mumie, fr. ML mumia, fr. Ar mūmiya bitumen, mummy, fr. Per mūm wax]

: a body embalmed for burial in the manner of the ancient Egyptians

— mum·mi·fi·ca·tion noun

— mum·mi·fy verb

mumps noun singular or plural [ORIGIN: fr. pl. of obs. mump grimace]

: a virus disease marked by fever and swelling esp. of the salivary glands

mun or munic abbreviation municipal

munch verb : to eat with a chewing action; also : to snack on

munch·ies noun plural 1 : hunger pangs

2 : light snack foods

mun·dane adjective 1 : of or relating to the world

2 : concerned with the practical details of everyday life

— mun·dane·ly adverb

Synonyms

[1] earthly, temporal, terrestrial, worldly—more at EARTHLY

[2] everyday, prosaic, workaday; also earthly, temporal, worldly; average, common, commonplace, customary, familiar,