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Multiplying

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mul·ti·ply 1  (mlt-pl)
v. mul·ti·plied, mul·ti·ply·ing, mul·ti·plies
v.tr.
1. To increase the amount, number, or degree of.
2. Mathematics To perform multiplication on.
v.intr.
1. To grow in amount, number, or degree. See Synonyms at increase.
2. To breed or propagate.
3. Mathematics To perform multiplication.
[Middle English multiplien, from Old French multiplier, from Latin multiplicre, from multiplex, multiplex; see multiplex.]
mul·ti·ply 2  (mlt-pl)
adv.
In many or multiple ways.
Multiplying of husbands—Bk. of St. Albans, 1486.


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Livingstone, in multiplying his fearless explorations from the Cape of Good Hope to the basin of the Zambesi; Captains Burton and Speke, in the discovery of the great interior lakes, have opened three highways to modern civilization.
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THE VIEW from the snowy peak of the Wind River Mountains, while it had excited Captain Bonneville's enthusiasm, had satisfied him that it would be useless to force a passage westward, through multiplying barriers of cliffs and precipices.
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Most of the other half carried themselves away and were slow to return, but finally came back, and were now increasing and multiplying as before, but Blackburg had not since been altogether the same.
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