DOUBLED Synonyms: 35 Similar and Opposite Words

doubled

verb

past tense of double

as in increased

to make twice as great or as many we doubled our investment in six months

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as in folded

to lay one part over or against another part of double the wet cloth and place it on the victim's forehead

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Recent Examples of doubled Crawford, playing his 1,000th career game, doubled to start the bottom of the sixth for the first hit of the night. — Los Angeles Times, 3 July 2026 Meanwhile, the increase jobs with AI as a prerequisite has more than doubled. — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 3 July 2026 Thanks to the addition of another round to the knockout phase, the number of knockout games doubled from 16 to 32. — Amelie Claydon, New York Times, 23 June 2026 After Larnach doubled to lead off the game against Tatsuya Imai (5-4), Bell hit a two-out, two-run homer. — CBS News, 2 July 2026 After the grand slam, Hunter Goodman doubled, TJ Rumfield walked and Cole Carrigg drove them both in with his third triple. — ABC News, 3 July 2026 In fact, the building talent bottleneck isn’t availability of curriculum, training programs, or interest in the trades; with growing awareness of high wages and unfilled jobs, interest among young adults has doubled in the past decade. — Ryan Craig, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026 Retailers and brands are pouring far more energy and budget money into creator campaigns built for social SEO, a shift that Statusphere says more than doubled in 2025. — Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 2 July 2026 Tesla registrations in the region more than doubled in May, bolstered by strong growth in markets including Germany and the UK, the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association said Tuesday. — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 23 June 2026

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And Harleys has entirely redesigned the rear -suspension and increased its travel 117 per cent to five inches (13 cm).

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 6 July 2026
The share of workers with hybrid schedules has increased a bit, while the share in fully remote positions has only seen a slight decline.

— Jason Ma, Fortune, 5 July 2026

Definition of increased

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The day could be sliced into identical pieces, the body trained to answer the bell, and the worker folded into a machine that only made sense when every human motion had been made useful to someone else.

— Alexander Puutio, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
Fire shelters weigh around 6 pounds and are folded up inside several protective layers in a firefighter’s pack.

— Jack Dura, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2026

Definition of folded

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The number of animals in his care has multiplied since the outbreak of the latest Israel-Hezbollah war, as hundreds of thousands of southern Lebanon residents fled and were unable to take their pets or farm animals.

— ABC News, ABC News, 3 July 2026
Beside the foreign brigades and their dogs, Venezuelan teams like K-Sar Ecid worked as peers; the collaboration multiplied what neither could have achieved alone.

— Luis E. Romero, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026

Definition of multiplied

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During a time when AI is automating more routine tasks, Kantenga emphasized that human skills that can’t be duplicated by tech are increasingly important.

— Courtney Connley-Hampton, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
Those figures likely included people who have been incommunicado due to the lack of cellphone signals, and some reports may be duplicated.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 28 June 2026