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double-timed

double-timed is the simple past and past participle of double-time.

Meaning of double-time

Verb

double-time (third-person singular simple present double-times, present participle double-timing, simple past and past participle double-timed)

  1. (intransitive) To march at double time.
  2. (transitive) To order troops to march at double time.
    • […]after ten or fifteen minutes of preparation, he stopped the artillery and instructed Corporal Lamb to double-time his platoon to the intermediate knoll under cover of fire from the machine guns.1954, Russell A. Gugeler, “Combat Actions in Korea”, in CMH Publication 30-2

Questions about double-timed

What is double-timed the simple past and past participle of?
Double-timed is the simple past and past participle of double-time.

Words near double-timed in the dictionary

  1. double-texted
  2. double-texting
  3. double-texts
  4. double-threaded
  5. double-time
  6. double-timed
  7. double-times
  8. double-timing
  9. double-tongue
  10. double-tongued
  11. double-tongues

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Adapted from Wiktionary: double-timed (page history and authors); double-time (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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