TENFOLD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tenfold mean? 

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

1. containing ten or ten parts

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

• TENFOLD (adverb)
  The adverb TENFOLD has 1 sense:

1. by ten times as much

  Familiarity information: TENFOLD used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TENFOLD (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Containing ten or ten parts

Synonyms:

denary; ten-fold; tenfold

Similar:

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

• TENFOLD (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

By ten times as much

Context example:

the population increased tenfold

 Context examples 

If she had felt impatience and regret before—if she had been sorry for what she said, and feared its too strong effect on him—she now felt and feared it all tenfold more.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

The results show that loss of animal seed-dispersers increases the probability of tree extinction by more than tenfold over a 100-year period.

(Overhunting of large animals has catastrophic effects on trees, NSF)

I, who have so disinterested an affection for you, may increase your miseries tenfold by being an obstacle to your wishes.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Some way down from where he had left him the unfortunate Peter was stamping and raving tenfold worse than before.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

NASA's Mars Curiosity rover has measured a tenfold spike in methane, an organic chemical, in the atmosphere around it and detected other organic molecules in a rock-powder sample collected by the robotic laboratory’s drill.

(Curiosity Detects Methane Spike on Mars, NASA)

I knew myself, at the first breath of this new life, to be more wicked, tenfold more wicked, sold a slave to my original evil; and the thought, in that moment, braced and delighted me like wine.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

The pirates were in possession of the house and stores: there was the cask of cognac, there were the pork and bread, as before, and what tenfold increased my horror, not a sign of any prisoner.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

On the one hand, of course, I was glad, for the fee was at least tenfold what I should have asked had I set a price upon my own services, and it was possible that this order might lead to other ones.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The study in the journal Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy said Jacobs and colleagues found that TB-infected mice treated with two standard drugs plus a high dose of vitamin C had roughly tenfold fewer bacteria in their lungs after several weeks than mice treated with drugs alone.

(Vitamin C Might Shorten Tuberculosis Treatment Time, Study Indicates, VOA/Steve Baragona)

It seems to me that the beauty is tenfold enhanced because it is there—

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)