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quadrupled

quadrupled is the simple past and past participle of quadruple.

Meaning of quadruple

Verb

quadruple (third-person singular simple present quadruples, present participle quadrupling, simple past and past participle quadrupled)

  1. (transitive) To multiply by four.
    • Quadrupling four gives sixteen.
  2. (intransitive) To increase by a factor of four.
    • Our profits quadrupled when we made the improvements.
  3. To provide four parallel running lines on a given stretch of railway.
    • On June 8, 1872, the London & North Western Railway obtained powers to quadruple its main line, and a new tunnel was bored for the up and down slow lines.1950 September, “Network News: Watford Tunnel, L.M.R.”, in Railway Magazine, page 641

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Questions about quadrupled

What is quadrupled the simple past and past participle of?
Quadrupled is the simple past and past participle of quadruple.

Words near quadrupled in the dictionary

  1. quadruple-clicking
  2. quadruple-clicks
  3. quadruple-header
  4. quadruple-headers
  5. quadruple-masted
  6. quadrupled
  7. quadrupledemic
  8. quadrupleness
  9. quadrupler
  10. quadruplers
  11. quadruples

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Adapted from Wiktionary: quadrupled (page history and authors); quadruple (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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