About The Word Redound
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Redound
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What's The Definition Of Redound?
[v] have an effect for good or ill; "Her efforts will redound to the general good"
[v] be added; "Everything he does redounds to himself" [v] be deflected; "His actions redound on his parents" [v] be excessive in quantity Synonyms | Synonyms for Redound: Related Terms | Find terms related to Redound: See Also | accrue | affect | bear on | bear upon | dominate | impact | predominate | prevail | reflect | reign | rule | touch | touch on Redound In Webster's Dictionary \Re*dound"\ (r?*dound"), v. i. [imp. & p. p.
{Redounded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Redounding}.] [F. redonder, L.
redundare; pref. red-, re-, re- + undare to rise in waves or
surges, fr. unda a wave. See {Undulate}, and cf.
{Redundant}.]
1. To roll back, as a wave or flood; to be sent or driven
back; to flow back, as a consequence or effect; to
conduce; to contribute; to result.
The evil, soon Driven back, redounded as a flood on
those From whom it sprung. --Milton.
The honor done to our religion ultimately redounds
to God, the author of it. --Rogers.
both . . . will devour great quantities of paper,
there will no small use redound from them to that
manufacture. --Addison.
2. To be in excess; to remain over and above; to be
redundant; to overflow.
For every dram of honey therein found, A pound of
gall doth over it redound. --Spenser.
\Re*dound"\, n. 1. The coming back, as of consequence or effect; result; return; requital. We give you welcome; not without redound Of use and glory to yourselves ye come. --Tennyson. 2. Rebound; reverberation. [R.] --Codrington. |
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