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sixfold

[ siks-fohld ]

adjective

  1. having six elements or parts.
  2. six times as great or as much.


adverb

  1. in sixfold measure.

sixfold

/ ˈsɪksˌfəʊld /

adjective

  1. equal to or having six times as many or as much
  2. composed of six parts


adverb

  1. by or up to six times as many or as much

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Word History and Origins

Origin of sixfold1

before 1000; Middle English sexfold, Old English sixfeald. See six, -fold

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Example Sentences

Since a low in June, covid-19 cases have risen more than sixfold.

She upped her anxiety and antidepressant medication until her dose had increased sixfold.

Failing grades shot up as much as sixfold for the first quarter in math and English for some of Montgomery’s most vulnerable students.

In the final quarter of Tyson’s fiscal year 2020 alone, it made nearly $700 million in profit and reported that income related to pork production had increased sixfold from the year before.

Montgomery County Public Schools, Maryland’s largest system, swiftly followed suit, announcing that failure rates in math and English had risen by as much as sixfold for some of its most at-risk students.

The same year lawmakers passed the National Defense Education Act, which increased federal investment in education nearly sixfold.

And he was not mistaken; sixfold, wet and heavy, his big kerchief that he had left in the hut lay upon his head.

It was otherwise in the British West Indies, where the whites were overshadowed by a more than sixfold population.

In our broad country the slaves are overshadowed by a more than sixfold white population.

Her hardware manufactures are one sixth of her total manufactures, and in the past half century they have increased sixfold.

There has been more than a sixfold increase in naval man power and about a fourfold increase in the number of ships in service.

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