centuple
/ˈsɛntjʊp(ə)l
/verb [with object]
Multiply by a hundred or by a very large amount: they were centupling the national debt...
- These qualities may come to the fore again in an office where their value would be centupled.
- I mean, if it's doubled when there are two of you, then it must be tripled when there are three, quadrupled when there are four, centupled when there are a hundred, right?
- He was so helpless that even flight seemed of no use; and though she kept on whispering, ‘Go to Doramin, go to Doramin,’ with feverish insistence, he realised that for him there was no refuge from that loneliness which centupled all his dangers except - in her.
Origin
Early 17th century: from French, or from ecclesiastical Latin centuplus, alteration of Latin centuplex, from Latin centum 'hundred'.