rapid spread
Fast, unchecked expansion
Rapid spread describes how quickly something disperses or extends across space, populations, or systems.
The phrase appears most often with diseases, information, or phenomena that move faster than expected or desired: the rapid spread of misinformation on social media, measures to contain the rapid spread of the virus.
Fire, invasive species, and ideas all undergo rapid spread.
- viralSpreading quickly online
- going viralSpreading rapidly online
- contagionDisease spread by contact
- chain reactionSelf-sustaining causal sequence
- outbreakSudden eruption of trouble
disease outbreak · epidemic · wildfire · pandemic · proliferation · surge · explosion · infectious · transmission · cascade · domino effect · sweep · blaze · rumor · word of mouth · trending · news cycle · multiplying
- fire hazardswildfire, gasoline, forest fire, matches, house fire
- manner of spreadingdiffusion, scatter, broadcast, radiation, dispersion
rapid spreadstasis
State of inactivity
containment · stagnation · stability · localization · standstill
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