multiply

• POS: Verb (usu participle), Verb (intransitive), Verb (transitive)
• HYPHEN: mul=ti=ply
• COUNT in NET: 37 in 34 verses (in OT : 34 in 31 verses) (in NT : 3 in 3 verses)

CIDE DICTIONARY

multiply, v. t. [F. multiplier, L. multiplicare, fr. multiplex manifold. See Multitude, Complex.].

•  To increase in number; to make more numerous; to add quantity to.  [1913 Webster]

  "Impunity will multiply motives to disobedience."  [1913 Webster]
•  To add (any given number or quantity) to itself a certain number of times; to find the product of by multiplication; thus 7 multiplied by 8 produces the number 56; to multiply two numbers. See the Note under Multiplication.  [1913 Webster]
•  To increase (the amount of gold or silver) by the arts of alchemy.  [1913 Webster]

Multiplying gear (Mach.), gear for increasing speed. -- Multiplying lens. (Opt.) See under Lens.

multiply, v. i. 

•  To become greater in number; to become numerous.  [1913 Webster]

  "When men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them."  [1913 Webster]
•  To increase in extent and influence; to spread.  [1913 Webster]

  "The word of God grew and multiplied."  [1913 Webster]
•  To increase amount of gold or silver by the arts of alchemy.  Chaucer.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

multiply, v. (-ies, -ied)
1 tr. (also absol.) obtain from (a number) another that is a specified number of times its value (multiply
6 by 4 and you get 24).
2 intr. increase in number esp. by procreation.
3 tr. produce a large number of (instances etc.).
4 tr. a breed (animals). b propagate (plants).

Etymology

ME f. OF multiplier f. L multiplicare (as MULTIPLEX)

THESAURUS

multiply

abound with, accrue, accumulate, add, advance, aggrandize, algebraize, appreciate, army, augment, balloon, be alive with, be fruitful, be productive, bear, beef up, beget, bloat, boom, boost, breed, breed true, bristle with, broaden, build, burst with, calculate, cast, cipher, cloud, clutter, compute, copulate, crawl with, creep with, crescendo, crossbreed, crowd, crush, develop, divide, dope out, drove, engender, enlarge, estimate, expand, extend, extract roots, father, figure, figure in, figure out, flock, fructify, gain, gain strength, generate, get, get ahead, go up, grow, heighten, horde, host, inbreed, increase, intensify, jam, legion, magnify, make love, measure, mother, mount, multitude, numbers, oodles, outbreed, overflow with, pack, press, procreate, produce, proliferate, propagate, pullulate, pullulate with, push, quantities, reckon, reproduce, reproduce in kind, rise, rout, run up, score, scores, shoot up, sire, snowball, spread, squash, strengthen, subtract, swarm with, swell, take account of, tally, teem, teem with, throng, throng with, upsurge, wax, widen, work out

ROGET THESAURUS

multiply

Numeration

VB number, count, tally, tell, call over, run over, take an account of, enumerate, muster, poll, recite, recapitulate, sum, sum up, cast up, tell off, score, cipher, compute, calculate, suppute, add, subtract, multiply, divide, extract roots, algebraize, check, prove, demonstrate, balance, audit, overhaul, take stock, affix numbers to, page, amount to, add up to, come to.

Multitude

VB be numerous, swarm with, teem with, creep with, crowd, swarm, come thick upon, outnumber, multiply, people, swarm like locusts, swarm like bees.

Reproduction

VB reproduce, restore, revive, renovate, renew, regenerate, revivify, resuscitate, reanimate, remake, refashion, stir the embers, put into the crucible, multiply, repeat, resurge, crop up, spring up like mushrooms.

Productiveness

VB make productive, fructify, procreate, generate, fertilize, spermative, impregnate, fecundate, fecundify, teem, multiply, produce, conceive.