tenfold

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Scrabble points
11
Words With Friends
13
Letters
7
Pronunciation
/ˈtɛnfoʊld/

Definition of tenfold

4 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (not-comparable)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.”
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adj

  1. (not-comparable)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. (not-comparable)Containing ten parts.

adv

  1. (not-comparable)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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Etymology

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

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