doubled
- 1Simple past and past participle of double.
The town's population doubled within a single decade.
She had doubled the recipe to feed the whole family.
Note
One spelling serves both the past tense and the participle, and the verb behind it works with or without an object. Intransitively, a thing grows to twice its size by itself: prices doubled overnight. Transitively, someone does the doubling (she doubled the dose), and only this use can turn passive: the dose was doubled. The form also carries narrower uses: a sheet doubled over, a fist doubled in anger, a batter who doubled to left field.
doubled is a form of double
double, verb: To make something twice as large, numerous, or strong, or to become twice as large; to increase by one hundred percent. Full entry
- Spelling
- double → doubled: add -d
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