Mushroom (Verb)

Meaning ¹

Pick or gather mushrooms; "We went mushrooming in the Fall".

Classification

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging.

Examples

• They decided to mushroom in the woods after a full moon and some heavy rainfall.
• Her family went mushrooming together every autumn, collecting wild fungi for dinner.
• The annual rain brought ideal mushrooming conditions, and our baskets were full by the end of the weekend.
• At dawn, they headed out into the forest to mushroom, searching for rare species.
• He enjoyed nothing more than taking the dogs mushrooming on Sunday mornings in late fall.

Hypernyms

• Pluck
• Cull

Related Words

• Mushroom (noun)

Meaning ²

Grow and spread fast; "The problem mushroomed".

Classification

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc..

Examples

• The small technical issue mushroomed into a major system failure within hours.
• Their business mushroomed into a multinational corporation within a decade.
• The minor complication mushroomed and led to a series of serious health problems.
• Inflation mushroomed under the economic crisis and eroded people's savings.
• The seemingly insignificant rumor mushroomed on social media and spread panic throughout the city.