redound
Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈdaʊnd/
The English word “redound” has 9 meanings listed here.
verb
- To swell up (of water, waves etc.); to overflow, to surge (of bodily fluids).
- To contribute to an advantage or disadvantage for someone or something.
- To contribute to the honour, shame etc. of a person or organisation.
- To reverberate, to echo.
- To reflect (honour, shame etc.) to or onto someone.
- To attach, come back, accrue to someone; to reflect back on or upon someone (of honour, shame etc.).
- To arise from or out of something.
- To roll back; to be sent or driven back.
noun
- A coming back, as an effect or consequence; a return.
Etymology
From Anglo-Norman redunder, Middle French redonder, and their source, Latin redundō, from red- + undō (“surge”), from unda (“a wave”).
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