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tenfold

adj
/ˈtɛnfoʊld/US

Etymology

From Middle English tenfold, tenfolde, from Old English tīenfeald. Equivalent to ten + -fold.

  1. inherited from tīenfeald
  2. inherited from tenfold

Definitions

  1. Ten times as much or as many.

    • [F]ull of death, and fierce vvith tenfold froſt, / The long long night, incumbent o'er their heads, / Falls horrible.

  2. Containing ten parts.

  3. By ten times as much.

    • I am here [in prison] for committing a crime, yet I see the state officials commit crimes that are ten fold worse and they do it without ramifications.
  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. To increase to ten times as much

      To increase to ten times as much; to multiply by ten.

The neighborhood

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No curated loop yet for tenfold. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA