decuple (not comparable)
(archaic) Tenfold.
decuple (plural decuples)
(archaic) An amount multiplied by ten.
decuple (third-person singular simple present decuples, present participle decupling, simple past and past participle decupled)
(archaic) To multiply by ten.
• cupeled
Source: Wiktionary
Dec"u*ple, a. Etym: [F. décuple, L. decuplus, fr. decem ten.]
Definition: Tenfold. [R.]
Dec"u*ple, n.
Definition: A number ten times repeated. [R.]
Dec"u*ple, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Decupled; p. pr. & vb. n. Decupling.]
Definition: To make tenfold; to multiply by ten. [R.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
9 March 2025
(verb) fill to excess so that function is impaired; “Fear clogged her mind”; “The story was clogged with too many details”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
