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 Luis Arraez doubled to drive in Drew Cavanaugh, then Rafael Devers added on with an RBI single to right-center, scoring Heliot Ramos. — Christian Babcock, Mercury News, 10 July 2026 Average premiums have doubled since 2020, and insurers that aren't raising rates are leaving the state. — Scott Cohn, CNBC, 10 July 2026 Arraez doubled in the go-ahead run in the fifth and Devers followed with an RBI single for a 4-2 lead. — ABC News, 10 July 2026 But when the same wall was covered in graffiti, that doubled to nearly seven in 10. — Antonio Garrido, Forbes.com, 10 July 2026 Wehbe said attendance doubled between the 2024 and 2025 editions, driven in part by international visitors, with growth reflected in flight bookings and hotel occupancy. — Sofia Celeste, Footwear News, 9 July 2026 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 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

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Verb

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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If Europe's own money is written to exclude non-European firms, and Turkey is building around the alliance rather than within it, the result is duplicated capability and protected supply lines.

— Güney Yıldız, Forbes.com, 7 July 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