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centuple

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[sen-tuh-puhl, -tyuh-] / ˈsɛn tə pəl, -tyə- /

adjective

  1. a hundred times as great; hundredfold.


verb (used with object)

centupled, centupling
  1. to increase 100 times.

Etymology

Origin of centuple

1600–10; < Middle French < Late Latin centuplus, equivalent to Latin centu ( m ) 100 + -plus -fold

Example Sentences

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Il y avait dans ces �loges, dans ces encouragements donn�s avec entra�nement, mais avec tact, je ne sais quel souffle de vie pour l'intelligence, qui l'activait et qui lui faisait rendre au centuple les dons qu'elle avait re�us du ciel.

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Cent = hundred, centoblo = a centuple.

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Kvarobligante sepdek kvin vi ricevas la centoblon de tri = By quadrupling 75 you get the centuple of 3.

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I knew that thou wilt give him the centuple, and therefore thought only how I could reach thee the soonest.

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Everything will be a weapon to us; from every villa, from every field, from every hedge, will issue defenders of the national cause; women and children will fight like men; men will centuple their strength, their courage; and we will all perish amid the ruins of our city, before receiving foreign rule into this land which at last we call ours.

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