double (someone) up/over

Examples of doubling

doubling

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

The change between the period 1800 -1824 and 1825-1849 was much smaller, with a doubling of real property prices.
In some sonatas the texture is varied by woodwind doublings of strings with flute or oboe, alternating with solo passages for different groups.
We found that there are many more verbs that do not allow consonant doubling, so listing the verbs that do is the most economical solution.
The risk of stroke increases dramatically with chronological age, doubling with each decade after 55.
But, although women exhibited a higher doubling rate, it could not be attributed directly to their being female.
Again the changes seem to originate around the early 1980s, with the average number of articles roughly doubling over the thirty years we have examined.
However, speakers whose doubling rates greatly differ (ranging from 10% to 83%) may be operating with different grammars.
Three or more performers (with the extra players doubling the parts) can perform the piece.
The doubling doses for induced specific-locus mutations can be compared between the three related drugs.
The doubling of props was further matched by the characters' frequent transitions between the worlds of domesticity and fable.
This solution, which explains the octave doublings as well, seems the most likely, as a brief look at the mechanism of transposition will clarify.
Each transfer culture went through approximately seven or eight cell doublings.
This means that even the doubling of such expenses would be absorbed by a 20% reduction in wage levels.
Also, no interaction between the experimental procedure (web or lab) and the experimental factors (word order, clitic doubling, accent placement and context) is found.
However, the adaptation process is unregulated, and modern loans quite often diverge from their sources, not least with regard to consonant doubling.
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