What does hundreds mean?
Hundreds means plural of hundred.
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/ˈhʌn.dɹədz/ · noun
plural of hundred.
The infected number in the hundreds
Yet had the whole train and all its bombs gone, had the engine crew merely jumped from the train and run as simple self-preservation would have suggested, or unhitched just the engine to make their escape faster, the whole town would have gone and most of the people with it, leaving just a smoking wasteland. Hundreds would have died.
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Hundreds means plural of hundred.
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The infected number in the hundreds
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