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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of decuple.

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Examples

  • This recipe is easily doubled, tripled, quadrupled, or decupled for a crowd of 125.

    Muffins and Mayhem Suzanne Beecher 2010

  • This recipe is easily doubled, tripled, quadrupled, or decupled for a crowd of 125.

    Muffins and Mayhem Suzanne Beecher 2010

  • Waymarsh had then taken for granted was doubled, decupled now.

    The Ambassadors 2003

  • Our capital would infallibly have been quadrupled, -- what do I say? decupled, centupled, in a short space of time.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861 Various

  • The force of his will seemed brusquely to be quadrupled and decupled.

    A Man's Woman Frank Norris 1886

  • Only the amount of response Waymarsh had then taken for granted was doubled, decupled now.

    The Ambassadors Henry James 1879

  • Law reiterated to the Regent that the credit of bankers and merchants decupled their capital; if the state became the universal banker, and centralized all the values in circulation, the public fortune would naturally be decupled.

    A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 6 1830

  • There is no doubt that the Emperor and all his arrogant courtiers have decupled their incomes from the British stimulation applied to inferior soils, that but for us never would have been called into culture.

    The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey, Vol. 2 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg Thomas De Quincey 1822

  • Meanwhile, over at the office that was, until late last year, inhabited by the face of parliamentary hyperpartisanship, Peter Van Loan - then, of course, the Government House Leader - nearly decupled in 2007, and went even higher the next year.

    Macleans.ca 2009

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