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trip·ly

 (trĭp′lē)
adv.
1. In three ways: As an actor, singer, and juggler, she was triply qualified for the role.
2. To a triple degree: a triply redundant navigational system.
3. Three times: Prices were triply inflated.
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trip•ly

(ˈtrɪp li)

adv.
1. to a triple number, measure, or degree.
2. in a triple manner; threefold.
[1650–60]
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Translations

triply

[ˈtrɪplɪ] ADVtres veces
triply dangeroustres veces más peligroso
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triply

advdreimal; triply expensivedreimal so teuer
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Tempered in blood, and tempered by lightning are these barbs; and I swear to temper them triply in that hot place behind the fin, where the white whale most feels his accursed life!
This heroic spirit of daring and endurance, in which all public and private differences were sunk throughout the whole fleet, is Lord Nelson's great legacy, triply sealed by the victorious impress of the Nile, Copenhagen, and Trafalgar.
The zeal of the religious fanatic whose altar has been desecrated was triply enhanced by the rage of a woman scorned.
I would rather find it triply bolted." And, indeed, the little note and pin upon the table confirmed, or rather corroborated, the sad truth.
His countenance thus triply hooped, as it were, with tattooing, always reminded me of those unhappy wretches whom I have sometimes observed gazing out sentimentally from behind the grated bars of a prison window; whilst the entire body of my savage valet, covered all over with representations of birds and fishes, and a variety of most unaccountable-looking creatures, suggested to me the idea of a pictorial museum of natural history, or an illustrated copy of 'Goldsmith's Animated Nature.'
OEDIPUS Be of good cheer; though I be proved the son Of a bondwoman, aye, through three descents Triply a slave, thy honor is unsmirched.
Now the Oceania countries Australia and New Zealand have joined the bracket and have made everything triply harder.
Manufacturability of the gyroid- and diamond-type triply periodic minimal surface (TPMS) scaffold design for biomaterials (bone implant) application is investigated in [2].
And just to make triply sure the Islanders won't meet, they're chaperoned every minute of the day so they can't sneak out to find their fellow villa mates.
Here, we see how race, religion, and refugee status intersect and triply affect the discrimination and hate directed towards the men.
And digging for Morris' many jokes (he categorizes the three Lieutenant Marvels as "triply redundant") will have you coming back to this tide for years.
The comic action is broad, all in upper case, triply underlined, with exclamation marks.