Grow
Replicate
Replicate verb - To make an exact likeness of.
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Grow and replicate are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Grow" instead a verb "Replicate".
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- In Real Life, viral particles (called "virions") are basically stripped-down delivery packages for DNA; they don't have any ability to grow or replicate by themselves and need to hijack the host cells' replicative machinery to accomplish that.
Source: Virus Misnomer -
Willow Wilson has actually gone to great lengths to replicate the experience of daily life in Jersey City and what it's like to grow up there.
Source: Joisey -
Mizar of Devil Survivor 2 is one of these, with the added complication that the blobs grow and split all on their own, meaning that it can replicate indefinitely if not finished off quickly.
Source: Asteroids Monster
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Replicate and Grow. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/grow/replicate
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