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 That is perhaps best evident in her home on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, which doubled as her own ever-evolving gallery from the mid-1960s until her death in 2025. — Demetrius Simms For Robb Report, ARTnews.com, 6 Nov. 2026 Tariff rates on clothing, shoes and luggage almost doubled year-over-year between 2024 and 2025. — Kate Nishimura, Footwear News, 6 Nov. 2026 Long story short, the gold rush of the CBS years (MLB payrolls doubled between the start of the deal and the network’s final season) quickly gave way to a staggering depletion of resources. — Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 6 Nov. 2026 South Korea’s benchmark Kospi index more than doubled in market value in June, but by Friday had shed most of the gains made this year. — Mithil Aggarwal, NBC news, 6 Nov. 2026 Nexstar‘s third-quarter revenue nearly doubled thanks to the boom in political advertising. — Dade Hayes, Deadline, 5 Nov. 2026 That is perhaps best evident in her home on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, which doubled as her own ever-evolving gallery from the mid 1960s until her death in 2025. — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 5 Nov. 2026 And over the same period, demand for transformers to work as off-ramps more than doubled, with costs increasing 80%. — Jasmine Garland, The Conversation, 4 Nov. 2026 Additionally, landlords renting out rooms in their own homes more than doubled between 2020 and 2025. — Nathan Miller, Forbes.com, 30 Oct. 2026

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The county also increased its general millage rate for fiscal year 2025-2026.

— Letters to the Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 1 Nov. 2026
Rents have increased in this rural area, where the median income is around $50,000 a year.

— Ayesha Rascoe, NPR, 1 Nov. 2026

Definition of increased

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The group’s apps have more than 40 million monthly active users combined and have passed 300 million installs, and EloElo said its revenue multiplied over the past year.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 4 Nov. 2026
The pack likely started as a small group, dumped by their owners, that grew and multiplied when people in the area started feeding them, the county said.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2026

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Those who voted on Issue 7A but were not eligible to do so will have their ballots duplicated onto the correct ballot style, state officials said.

— Katie Langford, Denver Post, 9 Oct. 2026
The company started scanning repositories for credentials, began alerting users that their credentials were exposed, and even set up default push protections to prevent affected repositories from being duplicated.

— Alex Colon, PC Magazine, 9 Oct. 2026