tenfold

alternative ten-fold

1. not comparableTen times as much or as many.

   Some 460,000 Americans are behind bars for drug offenses--a tenfold increase over 1980.

   2001 May 7, Margot Roosevelt et al., “The War Against The War On Drugs”, in TIME, archived from the original on 01 Feb 2012

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   [F]ull of death, and fierce vvith tenfold froſt, / The long long night, incumbent o'er their heads, / Falls horrible.

   a. 1749 (date written), James Thomson, “Winter”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, →OCLC, page 198, lines 923–925

   Synonyms: decuple

2. not comparableContaining ten parts.

   Synonyms: denary

alternative ten-fold

1. not comparableBy ten times as much.

   1896, William Allen Sylvester, Modern Carpentry and Building, page 142, "But, since we have increased the original value of 26 tenfold its original value, we must increase the original result tenfold : ten times 2 equal 20, the required answer."

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   I am here [in prison] for committing a crime, yet I see the state officials commit crimes that are ten fold worse and they do it without ramifications.

   1987 August 15, Stephen William Gumpl, “Refusing To Become A Piece”, in Gay Community News, volume 15, number 5, page 4

present singular third person tenfolds · participle present tenfolding · participle past tenfolded · past tenfolded · alternative ten-fold

1. To increase to ten times as much; to multiply by ten.