centuple

Definitions


[sɛnˈtjuːpl], (Verb)

Definitions:
- multiply by a hundred or by a very large amount
(e.g: they were centupling the national debt)


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Origin:
early 17th century: from French, or from ecclesiastical Latin centuplus, alteration of Latin centuplex, from Latin centum ‘hundred’




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