hundredfold

English

Etymology

From Middle English hundredfald. Equivalent to hundred +‎ -fold.

Adjective

hundredfold (not comparable)

Multiplied by a hundred.
- 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 23, in The Mirror and the Lamp:
  The struggle with ways and means had recommenced, more difficult now a hundredfold than it had been before, because of their increasing needs.

Translations

Multiplied by a hundred

Bulgarian: стократен (bg) (stokraten)

German: hundertfach (de)

Adverb

hundredfold (not comparable)

By a factor of one hundred.

Verb

hundredfold (third-person singular simple present hundredfolds, present participle hundredfolding, simple past and past participle hundredfolded)

to increase to hundred times as much; to multiply by hundred

Translations

increase to hundred times as much

Bulgarian: стократно (bg) (stokratno)

Georgian: ასჯერ (asǯer)

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