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doubled

doubled \doubled\ adj.

  1. rendered twice as great or twice as many.

    Syn: double, duplex, twofold, diploid.

  2. folded in two; as, doubled sheets of paper.

    Syn: doubled over.

doubled

folded \folded\ adj. made compact by bending or doubling over. [Narrower terms: accordion, plicate ; {bifold ; {closed ; {doubled ; {pleated ; {rolled, rolled-up(prenominal) ; {sunburst, sunray .] Also See: {collapsible, collapsable. Antonym: unfolded

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doubled

vb. (en-past of: double)

WordNet
doubled
  1. adj. twice as great or many; "ate a double portion"; "the dose is doubled"; "a twofold increase" [syn: double, twofold]

  2. folded in two; "doubled sheets of paper"

Usage examples of "doubled".

I went behind the counter of this, and waited for my cook, and as he bolted in at the head of the chase, I doubled him up with a lamp.

Her hump prevented her lying on her back, but the ingenious Astrodi doubled up the pillows and succeeded in placing her in a position similar to that of a ship about to be launched.

An empiric named Gendron, the first surgeon my servants had found, made an opening on the opposite side of my hand which doubled the wound.

Nina remained as impudent as ever, doubled the size of the red cockades which she made her servants wear, and swore that Spain would avenge her on the insolent archbishop.

Her fingers were plaiting a pattern, keeping it doubled over between her palms so there was no danger if Chalcus looked over his shoulder at her.

Age had so wizened the man in the mirror that even standing he was doubled over like a frog.

Momentum carried it toward the sailor, but it doubled up and pawed at its shattered left eyesocket.

Their clothing had rotted off, all but a few tatters where the cloth was doubled, and the blades of their weapons were lumps of rust.

Think you, how her pain would be doubled, did she but hear your wild words.

But Commander Farragut would not take a tortuous passage, but doubled Cape Horn.

Abraham Lincoln, at fifteen miles to the south, doubled the solitary island, this lost rock at the extremity of the American continent, to which some Dutch sailors gave the name of their native town, Cape Horn.

Nautilus, if the day after to-morrow she is to be in the Mediterranean, having made the round of Africa, and doubled the Cape of Good Hope!

The next day, the 16th of February, we left the basin which, between Rhodes and Alexandria, is reckoned about 1,500 fathoms in depth, and the Nautilus, passing some distance from Cerigo, quitted the Grecian Archipelago after having doubled Cape Matapan.

The cabman suddenly whooped and doubled up, kicked under the diaphragm.

I was half minded to hit his silly countenance, but I arrested my doubled fist.