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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Multiply \Mul"ti*ply\, verb (used without an object)
1. To become greater in number; to become numerous.
When men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them. --Gen. vi. 1.
2. To increase in extent and influence; to spread.
The word of God grew and multiplied. --Acts xii. 24.
3. To increase amount of gold or silver by the arts of alchemy. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Multiply \Mul"ti*ply\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Multiplied}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Multiplying}.] [F. multiplier, L. multiplicare, fr. multiplex manifold. See {Multitude}, {Complex}.]
1. To increase in number; to make more numerous; to add quantity to.
Impunity will multiply motives to disobedience. --Ames.
2. (Math.) 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}.
3. To increase (the amount of gold or silver) by the arts of alchemy. [Obs.]
{Multiplying gear} (Mach.), gear for increasing speed.
{Multiplying lens}. (Opt.) See under {Lens}.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
multiply
adverb: in several ways; in a multiple manner; "they were multiply checked for errors" [ant: {singly}]
verb
1: combine by multiplication; "multiply 10 by 15" [ant: {divide}]
2: combine or increase by multiplication; "He managed to multiply his profits" [syn: {manifold}]
3: have young (animals); "pandas rarely breed in captivity" [syn: {breed}]
4: have offspring or young; "The deer in our neighborhood reproduce madly"; "The Catholic Church tells people to procreate, no matter what their economic situation may be" [syn: {reproduce}, {procreate}] [also: {multiplied}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
117 Moby Thesaurus words for "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
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