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 Our linen closet has long doubled as a medicine station — stocked with bronchodilators, pinworm pills, antiviral medication, pain relief patches, pulse oximeters and nebulizers, vials of Prednisone, even EpiPen injectors. — Allan Ripp, Chicago Tribune, 14 Aug. 2026 There’s the fact that the share of the national income that the country’s wealthiest controlled by the end of the 2010s had nearly doubled since the 1970s—but for the bottom 50 percent of Americans, it had been cut nearly in half. — Literary Hub, 14 Aug. 2026 Just a handful of years later, the United States has now more than doubled all of Russia’s payloads to orbit since 1990. — Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 14 Aug. 2026 Jerry Seinfeld inducted Sarandos with a speech that doubled as a tribute to the Netflix co-CEO and a not-so-subtle campaign for his own Hall of Fame induction. — Lilly Workneh, HollywoodReporter, 14 Aug. 2026 Hernández followed with a walk before Agustín Ramírez doubled for a 2-1 lead one out later. — CBS News, 13 Aug. 2026 Between 2022 and 2025, German car exports to China fell 66 percent, and China’s total vehicle exports more than doubled, making China the world’s largest auto exporter. — Michael B. G. Froman, Foreign Affairs, 13 Aug. 2026 Nowadays, the amount of Treasuries outstanding is ten times larger and growing fast, having doubled since 2018 to around $31 trillion. — Greg Ritchie, Fortune, 13 Aug. 2026 Chinese solar exports doubled in March reaching a new monthly record, as 50 countries set all-time records for Chinese solar imports in a single month, according to Ember, a think tank. — ABC News, 8 Aug. 2026

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Verb

More drones and missiles are slipping through both sides’ fraying air defenses, meaning that the civilian death toll has increased, and more critical infrastructure is being damaged.

— Issy Ronald, CNN Money, 10 Aug. 2026
Connecticut’s homeless population increased for the fifth year in a row — though at a lower rate than the previous two years.

— Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 10 Aug. 2026

Definition of increased

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The architecture and core focus of planting community seeds remained constant even as the specific interventions multiplied and deepened.

— Mena Mirhom, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026
Isolating each peak required constructing a very specific function that, when multiplied by the original fractal-like function, would pull out just the peak and be close to zero everywhere else.

— Shalma Wegsman, Quanta Magazine, 12 Aug. 2026

Definition of multiplied

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Likewise, securing and even identifying rights continues to be a problem, which can even extend to subtitles, which might be copyrighted and need to be duplicated, causing unnecessary expenses.

— John Bleasdale, Variety, 11 Aug. 2026
If that can be duplicated, replicated, and even improved upon, all the better, and all the more worth celebrating and examining.

— Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 10 Aug. 2026