What does tenfold mean?
Tenfold means Ten times as much or as many..
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/ˈtɛnfoʊld/ · adjective
Ten times as much or as many..
[F]ull of death, and fierce vvith tenfold froſt, / The long long night, incumbent o'er their heads, / Falls horrible.
1896, William Allen Sylvester, Modern Carpentry and Building, page 142, "But, since we have increased the original value of 26 tenfold its original value, we must increase the original result tenfold : ten times 2 equal 20, the required answer."
I am here [in prison] for committing a crime, yet I see the state officials commit crimes that are ten fold worse and they do it without ramifications.
Use tenfold when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Tenfold means Ten times as much or as many..
Common synonyms include denary, decuple, multiple.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
[F]ull of death, and fierce vvith tenfold froſt, / The long long night, incumbent o'er their heads, / Falls horrible.
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