mushroomed
- 1Simple past and past participle of mushroom.
The startup mushroomed from three employees to three hundred within a year.
Demand for the vaccine mushroomed once the outbreak spread.
Note
A regular past form, so one spelling serves as both simple past and participle. The verb is intransitive in all its uses, so the participle builds perfects (costs have mushroomed), not passives: nothing is ever "mushroomed" by someone. The common sense of swift growth is figurative. The same form also covers going out to gather mushrooms, and anything that mushroomed on striking a soft target, spreading into a cap shape.
mushroomed is a form of mushroom
mushroom, verb: To grow quickly to a large size, or to increase rapidly in scope or scale. Full entry
- Forms
- mushroommushrooms he/she/itmushrooming -ing formmushroomed past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- mushroom → mushroomed: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /d/.
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