tenfold

UK /ˈtɛnfoʊld/ US /ˈtɛnfoʊld/
adj 2adv 1verb 1

Definitions

adj

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.

adv

1

By ten times as much.

1896, William Allen Sylvester, Modern Carpentry and Building, page 142, "But, since we have increased the original value of 26 tenfold its original value, we must increase the original result tenfold : ten times 2 equal 20, the required answer."

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.

verb

1

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

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