Hundredfold
['hʌndrədfəʊld] or ['hʌndrəd,fold]
Definition
(adv.) by a factor of one hundred; 'they money increased a hundredfold'.
Typist: Osborn--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A hundred times as much or as many.
Edited by Bernice
Examples
- He had given them back the grain they gave him increased a hundredfold. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Instead of the diminished demand for horses which was apprehended when railways displaced stage coaches, public conveyances have increased a hundredfold. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- The natural difficulties of the first lines were increased a hundredfold, greater marshes had to be crossed, greater streams to be bridged, greater hills to be tunneled. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- The implacable animosity of Heyling, so far from being satiated by the success of his persecution, increased a hundredfold with the ruin he inflicted. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- But others fell into good ground and brought forth fruit, some a hundredfold, some sixtyfold, and some thirtyfold. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
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