double
/ˈdʌb.əl/ verbo B2En español: duplicar, doblar, redoblar, duplicarse
- 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 · Pasado doubled · Participio pasado doubled · Forma en -ing doubling
Formas del verbo
- Forma base
- double
- He/she/it
- doubles
- Pasado
- doubled
- Participio pasado
- doubled
- Forma en -ing
- doubling
Phrasal verbs y expresiones
De la biblioteca
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.
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