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English Dictionary: fourfold by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
fourfold
adv
  1. by a factor of four; "the price of gasoline has increased fourfold over the past two years"
    Synonym(s): fourfold, four times
adj
  1. four times as great or many; "a fourfold increase in the dosage"
    Synonym(s): quadruple, fourfold, four-fold
  2. having four units or components; "quadruple rhythm has four beats per measure"; "quadruplex wire"
    Synonym(s): quadruple, quadruplicate, quadruplex, fourfold, four-fold
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Fourfold \Four"fold`\, a. & adv. [AS. fe[a2]werfeold.]
      Four times; quadruple; as, a fourfold division.
  
               He shall restore the lamb fourfold.         --2 Sam. xii.
                                                                              6.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Fourfold \Four"fold`\, n.
      Four times as many or as much.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Fourfold \Four"fold`\, v. t.
      To make four times as much or as many, as an assessment,; to
      quadruple.
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