double
/ˈdʌb.əl/ verb B2- To multiply by two. · The company doubled their earnings per share over last quarter.
- To increase by 100%, to become twice as large in size. · Our earnings have doubled in the last year.
- To be the double of; to exceed by twofold; to contain or be worth twice as much as.
- To fold over so as to make two folds. · To make a pleat, double the material at the waist.
- To clench (a fist).
- To get a two-base hit. · The batter doubled into the corner.
- To join or couple.
- To repeat exactly; copy.
He/she/it doubles · Past doubled · Past participle doubled · -ing form doubling
Verb forms
- Base form
- double
- He/she/it
- doubles
- Past
- doubled
- Past participle
- doubled
- -ing form
- doubling
Phrasal verbs and expressions
- double back To retrace one's steps; to go back where one has already ...
- double down To double one's wager, particularly, the name of a specif...
- double off After a fly ball is caught, to tag the base (a runner) wa...
- double over To bend over deeply at the waist.
- double up To double the quantity, amount or duration of something.
From the library
All I can say is, that if it be so, ’tis an ill turn, and well deserves to bring double evil on those who have projected it.”
A DOG, crossing a bridge over a stream with a piece of flesh in his mouth, saw his own shadow in the water and took it for that of another Dog, with a piece of meat double his own in size.
If we get rid of them, we shall fall into the hands of unskillful operators, and thus suffer a double death: for you may be assured, that though all the Butchers should perish, yet will men never want beef.”
And thus his trick recoiled on him, for he now carried on his back a double burden.
Other matches
- double Made up of two matching or complementary elements. A2
- double Twice the number, amount, size, etc. B2
- double Twice over C2
- double back To retrace one's steps
- double down To double one's wager, particularly, the name o...
- double off After a fly ball is caught, to tag the base
- double over To bend over deeply at the waist.
- double up To double the quantity, amount or duration of s...
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