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double up

VERB
clench
Synonyms
STRONGEST
clamp clasp clutch
STRONG
clinch constrict contract grapple grip hold
WEAK
draw together
Antonyms
STRONGEST
let go unfasten
STRONG
expand release
WEAK
loose loosen
VERB
crease
Synonyms
STRONGEST
crinkle pleat pucker wrinkle
STRONG
bend cockle corrugate crimp crumple dog-ear plait purse ridge
WEAK
ruck up screw up
Antonyms
STRONGEST
smooth straighten

Example Sentences

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They also might mistakenly double up on a medication if a mail-order pharmacy switches generic manufacturers and a drug begins coming in a different-colored pill that appears to be a different prescription.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 27, 2025

As if on cue, stomach cramps made me double up.

From Salon • Dec. 3, 2025

Calling him "one of the great portraitists of the 19th and 20th Centuries", it says the show will illustrate how many of his pictures "double up as icons or examples of the human condition".

From BBC • Dec. 31, 2024

Reds shortstop Elly De La Cruz didn’t have a chance to double up the speedy Ohtani, but he fired a throw toward first base anyway.

From Los Angeles Times • May 18, 2024

A dozen times a day they had to stop to free a wheel that had stuck in a rut, or double up the teams to climb a muddy slope.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin