REDOUND

redound

(verb) have an effect for good or ill; “Her efforts will redound to the general good”

redound

(verb) contribute; “Everything redounded to his glory”

redound

(verb) return or recoil; “Fame redounds to the heroes”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Verb

redound (third-person singular simple present redounds, present participle redounding, simple past and past participle redounded)

(obsolete, intransitive) To swell up (of water, waves etc.); to overflow, to surge (of bodily fluids). [14th-19th c.]

(intransitive) To contribute to an advantage or disadvantage for someone or something. [from 15th c.]

(intransitive) To contribute to the honour, shame etc. of a person or organisation. [from 15th c.]

(intransitive) To reverberate, to echo. [from 15th c.]

(transitive) To reflect (honour, shame etc.) to or onto someone. [from 15th c.]

(intransitive) To attach, come back, accrue to someone; to reflect back on or upon someone (of honour, shame etc.). [from 16th c.]

(intransitive) To arise from or out of something. [from 16th c.]

(intransitive, of a wave, flood, etc.) To roll back; to be sent or driven back.

Noun

redound (plural redounds)

A coming back, as an effect or consequence; a return.

Anagrams

• rounded, underdo

Source: Wiktionary


Re*dound" (r*dound"), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Redounded; p. pr. & vb. n. Redounding.] Etym: [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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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