hundredfold

adj, adv, verb — 3 senses

hundredfold

adj

Etymology From Middle English hundredfold. Equivalent to hundred + -fold.

1

Multiplied by a hundred.

The struggle with ways and means had recommenced, more difficult now a hundredfold than it had been before, because of their increasing needs.1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXIII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

hundredfold

adv

Etymology From Middle English hundredfold. Equivalent to hundred + -fold.

1

By a factor of one hundred.

hundredfold

verb

Etymology From Middle English hundredfold. Equivalent to hundred + -fold.

1

Rare To increase to one hundred times as much; to multiply by a hundred.

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