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REDUPLICATE
duplicate, reduplicate, double, repeat, replicate
(verb) make or do or perform again; “He could never replicate his brilliant performance of the magic trick”
reduplicate, geminate
(verb) form by reduplication; “The consonant reduplicates after a short vowel”; “The morpheme can be reduplicated to emphasize the meaning of the word”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
reduplicate (comparative more reduplicate, superlative most reduplicate)
doubled
(botany) valvate with the margins curved outwardly
(botany) folded, with the abaxial surfaces facing one another
Verb
reduplicate (third-person singular simple present reduplicates, present participle reduplicating, simple past and past participle reduplicated)
(transitive) To double again: to multiply: to repeat.
(transitive, linguistics) To repeat (a word or part of a word) in order to form a new word or phrase, possibly with modification of one of the repetitions.
Source: Wiktionary
Re*du"pli*cate (r*d"pl*kt), a. Etym: [Pref. re- + duplicate: cf. L. reduplicatus. Cf. Redouble.]
1. Double; doubled; reduplicative; repeated.
2. (Bot.)
Definition: Valvate with the margins curved outwardly; -- said of the
Re*du"pli*cate (-kt), v. t. Etym: [Cf. LL. reduplicare.]
1. To redouble; to multiply; to repeat.
2. (Gram.)
Definition: To repeat the first letter or letters of (a word). See Reduplication,3.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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