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trebly

adverb

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adj

Etymology: Etymology tree English treble Middle English -ly English -ly English trebly From treble + -ly.

  1. Having treble, or high-pitched, qualities.

    “With the room so bare, Ivret’s voice sounded different, trebly echoes ringing off her sibilants.”

adv

Etymology: Etymology tree English treble Middle English -ly English -ly English trebly From treble + -ly.

  1. Three times, thrice
  2. To three times the extent or degree; triply.

    “For my part, I must do my best to save this fellow's trebly worthless life; Jim, you get me a basin.”

    “The task was made trebly difficult, however, by the badly run-down condition in which the railways of Britain had been unavoidably left at the end of the war in 1945, […].”