DOUBLED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does doubled mean? 

• DOUBLED (adjective)
  The adjective DOUBLED has 1 sense:

1. twice as great or many

  Familiarity information: DOUBLED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DOUBLED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Twice as great or many

Synonyms:

double; doubled; two-fold; twofold

Context example:

a twofold increase

Similar:

multiple (having or involving or consisting of more than one part or entity or individual)

 Context examples 

Loneliness was associated with a doubled mortality risk in women and nearly doubled risk in men.

(Loneliness Is Bad for Heart, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The period of expectation was now doubled.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

But his pursuers forestalling him, he doubled back across the cabin, passed over the galley, and gained the deck by means of the steerage-scuttle.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Soon after, the lugger doubled the point and disappeared.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Currently, one out of five children suffers from asthma before school age, and that percentage has more than doubled over the past decades in Western countries.

(Omega-3 Fatty Acids Reduce Asthma Risk in Children by One-Third, VOA)

In that region, the rate of grounding-line retreat doubled from about 0.4 miles (0.6 kilometers) a year from 1992 to 2011 to 0.8 miles (1.2 kilometers) a year from 2011 to 2017.

(Huge Cavity in Antarctic Glacier Signals Rapid Decay, NASA)

Scientists found that the number of young corals on tropical reefs has declined by 85 percent – and doubled on subtropical reefs – over the last four decades.

(Coral reefs shifting away from equatorial waters, National Science Foundation)

In the mouse model, lipid uptake to heart is doubled.

(Excess Fat Disrupts Heart Cell's Energy System, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Their irritability arose out of their misery, increased with it, doubled upon it, outdistanced it.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Uriah stopped short, put his hands between his great knobs of knees, and doubled himself up with laughter.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)