sixfold

adjective

six·​fold ˈsiks-ˌfōld 

-ˈfōld

1

: having six units or members

2

: being six times as great or as many

sixfold

ˈsiks-ˈfōld 

adverb

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web

But with the variant circulating in South Africa, there was a sixfold reduction in the antibodies’ effectiveness. —New York Times, 27 Jan. 2021

The budget for tear gas munitions, which had dropped after the 2017 allocation, soared again in 2020 to $14.8 million, a sixfold increase from the previous year, Andri said. —Sui-lee Wee, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Oct. 2022

The Pentagon also announced a sixfold increase in production of heavy artillery shells to meet the demand in Ukraine. —Maria Varenikova, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2023

Gentoo pairs saw a sixfold increase, from 25,000 to 173,000. —Craig Welch, National Geographic, 13 Jan. 2023

This report was modeled on a study by the U.K. government, which came to the opposite conclusion about vaccines but did find that COVID infection was associated with a sixfold increase in youth cardiac death. —Benjamin Mazer, The Atlantic, 4 Jan. 2023

Dispatchers are overwhelmed, with Beijing city officials reporting a sixfold surge in emergency calls earlier this month. —Dake Kang, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Dec. 2022

The budget for tear gas munitions, which had dropped after the 2017 allocation, soared again in 2020 to $14.8 million, a sixfold increase from the previous year, Mr. Andri said. —Sui-lee Wee, New York Times, 3 Oct. 2022

By September 2021, the average cost for shipping a container from Asia to the U.S. West Coast exceeded $20,000, a sixfold increase from a year earlier, according to the Freightos Baltic Index. —Paul Berger, WSJ, 21 Oct. 2022

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Word History

First Known Use

before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1