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Doubled

adjective

Twice as great or many. Synonyms: double, two-fold, twofold. "The dose is doubled" , "A twofold increase"

Double

verb

(past & past part. doubled; pres. part. doubling)

Increase twofold. Synonym: duplicate.

Hit a two-base hit.

Bend over or curl up, usually with laughter or pain. Synonyms: double over, double up.

Do double duty; serve two purposes or have two functions.

Bridge: make a demand for (a card or suit).

Make or do or perform again. Synonyms: duplicate, reduplicate, repeat, replicate.

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"Doubled" Quotes from Famous Books

... Hen (which because she also takes any Cock, expects it not) who is sure the Chickens be her own, hath by a moral impression her care, and affection to her own Broode, more then doubled, even to such a height, that our Saviour in expressing his love to Jerusalem, [Mat. 23. 37] quotes her for an example of tender affection, as his Father had done Job for a pattern ...

— The Compleat Angler - Facsimile of the First Edition • Izaak Walton

... Mamie took sick just one month after my sister died. After she found out the doctors couldn't do her no good, she got a real good root worker to doctor on her. He got her up and she stayed up for nearly a year before Lucinda doubled the dose. That time pore Mamie couldn't git up. She suffered and suffered before she died. But Lucinda got her pay for all of it. When Mamie died Lucinda come to see her and said 'some folks was better off dead anyhow'. Mamie's daughter ...

— Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves - Georgia Narratives, Part 4 • Works Projects Administration

... The canoe completely doubled the point, so as to enable the two travellers to command a view of the whole cove or bay, for it was more properly the last, and no object, but those that nature had placed there, became visible. The placid water swept round in a graceful curve, the rushes bent gently towards ...

— The Deerslayer • James Fenimore Cooper

... take care of him," put in Tom, undauntedly, and doubled up his fists. "Maybe he'd like to go down stairs again and smash ...

— The Rover Boys on the Farm - or Last Days at Putnam Hall • Arthur M. Winfield (AKA Edward Stratemeyer)

... seen that our people more than doubled their numbers during the first half of the present century. The population is now more than twelve times as great as it was immediately after the Roman conquest. These numbers did not increase in equal ...

— The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. - From George III. to Victoria • E. Farr and E. H. Nolan

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