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centuples

centuples is the third-person singular simple present indicative of centuple.

Meaning of centuple

Verb

centuple (third-person singular simple present centuples, present participle centupling, simple past and past participle centupled)

  1. (intransitive) To increase a hundredfold.
  2. (transitive) To increase or multiply something by a hundred.
    • "Mechanisation, science, and technology have centupled the productive potential of human labour."2015, Errico Malatesta, Carl Levy, Life and Ideas: The Anarchist Writings of Errico Malatesta

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Questions about centuples

What is centuples the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Centuples is the third-person singular simple present indicative of centuple.

Words near centuples in the dictionary

  1. centumvirates
  2. centumviri
  3. centumvirs
  4. centuple
  5. centupled
  6. centuples
  7. centuplet
  8. centuplets
  9. centuplicate
  10. centuplicated
  11. centuplicates

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Adapted from Wiktionary: centuples (page history and authors); centuple (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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