multiply
/ˈmʌltɪplaɪ/ verb B2- To increase the amount, degree or number of (something).
- To perform multiplication on (a number). · when you multiply 3 by 7, you get 21; he multiplied several numbers
- To grow in number.
- To breed or propagate.
- To perform multiplication. · He had been multiplying, but it occurred to him he needed to resolve the exponents, first.
He/she/it multiplies · Past multiplied · Past participle multiplied · -ing form multiplying
Verb forms
- Base form
- multiply
- He/she/it
- multiplies
- Past
- multiplied
- Past participle
- multiplied
- -ing form
- multiplying
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He was telling me this morning that, tired of letting his property lie dormant in Italy, which is a dead nation, he wished to find a method, either in France or England, of multiplying his millions, but remember, that though I place great confidence in Busoni, I am not responsible for this.”
Multiply that by thousands of rooftops, add asphalt streets and the warm air pumped out by countless air conditioners, and you end up with what scientists call an urban heat island: a city that stays noticeably warmer than the countryside around it, especially at night.
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