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6️⃣ Six parts 🔼 To make six times
to sextuple

to sextuple

7.7
To make something six times bigger
  • verb
  • /sɛkˈstjuːpəl/
translation icon : sextuplicar
  • The company's profits sextupled over the last three years, reaching an all-time high.

Examples

  • The American taxpayers took it and sextupled it—not $800,000 per green job, but $4,800,000 per green job.

    Academic text (2011)

  • Almost anywhere, that is. "So you're offering to sextuple at insubordination?

    Fiction book (1999)

  • After the successful marketing campaign, sales sextupled, much to the delight of the investors.

  • Due to increased demand, the warehouse decided to sextuple its production output to meet the needs of customers.

Antonyms

to decrease
325 2.0

To make something smaller in amount or size

How Many Times

octuple
1 7.7
septuple
8.2
to sextuple
7.7
to quintuple
3 7.5
to quadruple
31 4.8
to triple
103 2.5
double
18 1.0

Surface Forms

sextuple infinitive
sextupled past
sextupled past participle
sextuping present participle
sextuples third person singular

Morphology

sextuple = tuple (transparent) = sex + tuple

The prefix 'sex-' indicates multiplication by six, and 'tuple' implies a grouping or set, making the meaning clear.

Etymology

Sextuple as a verb comes from the Latin sex 'six' and the same idea behind words like double and triple, which tell how many times. So to sextuple something is to increase it to 'six times' its original amount.