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DOUBLED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Twice as great or many
Example:
a twofold increase
Synonyms:
double; doubled; two-fold; twofold
Classified under:
Similar:
multiple (having or involving or consisting of more than one part or entity or individual)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb double
Context examples:
“Well, sir, it went so quick, and the creature was so doubled up, that I could hardly swear to that,” was the answer.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
I wished it had been doubled.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
He might have doubled his presumption to me—but poor Harriet!
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
The researchers also found that when mice were given both CBs and alcohol, the likelihood of these birth defects more than doubled.
(Using both marijuana and alcohol during early pregnancy may increase the likelihood of disrupting fetal development, National Institutes of Health)
The bull-dog missed by a hair's-breadth, and cries of praise went up as White Fang doubled suddenly out of danger in the opposite direction.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Glucose uptake nearly tripled in mice fat cells exposed to red rice bran extracts and more than doubled with purple rice bran extracts.
(Colored Rice May Brighten the Menu for Diabetics in the Future, U.S. Department of Agriculture)
When untreated mosquitoes consumed a blood meal, their abdominal diameter immediately doubled, and then decreased over the next 24 hours.
(Novel insecticide blocks mosquitoes’ ability to urinate, NIH)
Teens manually using a cell phone doubled their odds of crashing.
(Reaching for objects while driving may raise teen crash risk nearly sevenfold, National Institutes of Health)
The Thwaites already drains an area roughly the size of the state of Florida, accounting for about 4 percent of global sea level rise — an amount that has doubled since the mid-1990s.
(Previously unsuspected volcanic activity confirmed under West Antarctic Ice Sheet at Pine Island Glacier, National Science Foundation)
The cell then divides into two daughter cells, each receiving one copy of the doubled material.
(Cell cycle, NCI Dictionary)
