amochiguar

An archaic verb meaning to multiply or increase in number, found in old religious and legal texts (in the sense of 'be fruitful and multiply') but obsolete in modern Spanish, which uses multiplicar or aumentar instead.

• El texto bíblico antiguo exhorta a amochiguar y crecer. — The old biblical text exhorts people to be fruitful and increase.
• En documentos coloniales aparece amochiguar con el sentido de multiplicarse. — In colonial documents, amochiguar appears with the meaning of multiplying.
• Nadie usa hoy amochiguar fuera de un texto histórico. — Nobody uses amochiguar today outside a historical text.

Using amochiguar in modern writing — it's obsolete; multiplicar or aumentar is what a contemporary reader expects for 'to increase' or 'to multiply.'

Often confused with multiplicar.