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twise

twise is the obsolete form of twice.

Meaning of twice

Adverb

twice (not comparable)

  1. Two times.
    • You should brush your teeth twice a day.
  2. (usually) Doubled in quantity, intensity, or degree.
    • Thus it appears that if the machine is turning twice as slow as before, there is more than twice the former quantity in the rising buckets; and more will be raised in a minute by the same expenditure of power.1826, John Nicholson, The Operative Mechanic, and British Machinist: Being a Practical Display of the Manufactories and Mechanical Arts of the United Kingdom, volume 1, H.C. Carey & I. Lea, page 78

Questions about twise

What is twise the obsolete form of?
Twise is the obsolete form of twice.

Words near twise in the dictionary

  1. twirp
  2. twirps
  3. twirties
  4. twiscar
  5. twiscars
  6. twise
  7. Twisp
  8. Twiss
  9. twissel
  10. twissell
  11. twissels

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Adapted from Wiktionary: twise (page history and authors); twice (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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