treble
/ˈtɹɛbəl/ verb C2- To multiply by three; to make into three parts, layers, or thrice the amount.
- To become multiplied by three or increased threefold.
- To make a shrill or high-pitched noise.
- To utter in a treble key; to whine.
He/she/it trebles · Past trebled · Past participle trebled · -ing form trebling
Verb forms
- Base form
- treble
- He/she/it
- trebles
- Past
- trebled
- Past participle
- trebled
- -ing form
- trebling
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We will leave Villefort on the road to Paris, travelling—thanks to trebled fees—with all speed, and passing through two or three apartments, enter at the Tuileries the little room with the arched window, so well known as having been the favorite closet of Napoleon and Louis XVIII., and now of Louis Philippe.
All “spirit and fire and dew,” as she was, the pleasures and pains of life came to her with trebled intensity.
During the war with Spain he was employed in the commissariat of the French army, and made a fortune; then with that money he speculated in the funds, and trebled or quadrupled his capital; and, having first married his banker’s daughter, who left him a widower, he has married a second time, a widow, a Madame de Nargonne, daughter of M.
“Well,” replied Monte Cristo, “it will be the way, everybody says, of trebling your fortune in twelve months.
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