Meanings
- pluralplural of hundred
The infected number in the hundreds
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Yet had the whole train and all its bombs gone, had the engine crew merely jumped from the train and run as simple self-preservation would have suggested, or unhitched just the engine to make their escape faster, the whole town would have gone and most of the people with it, leaving just a smoking wasteland. Hundreds would have died.
2022 January 12, Benedict le Vay, “The heroes of Soham...”, in RAIL, number 948, page 43
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hundreds. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hundreds
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