tenfold
adverb
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Pronunciation: /ˈtɛnfoʊld/
adj
Etymology: From Middle English tenfold, tenfolde, from Old English tīenfeald. Equivalent to ten + -fold.
- 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.”
- Containing ten parts.
adv
Etymology: From Middle English tenfold, tenfolde, from Old English tīenfeald. Equivalent to ten + -fold.
- 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
Etymology: From Middle English tenfold, tenfolde, from Old English tīenfeald. Equivalent to ten + -fold.
- To increase to ten times as much; to multiply by ten.