redound
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British, America) IPA: /ɹɪˈdaʊnd/, /ɹəˈdaʊnd/
redound (redounds, present participle redounding; past and past participle redounded)
- (obsolete, intransitive) To swell up (of water, waves etc.); to overflow, to surge (of bodily fluids). [14th-19th c.]
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.10:
- For every dram of hony therein found / A pound of gall doth over it redound […].
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.10:
- (intransitive) To contribute to an advantage or disadvantage for someone or something. [from 15th c.]
- The honour done to our religion ultimately redounds to God, the author of it.
- 1970, Alvin Toffler, Future Shock, Bantam Books, p. 448:
- The fact that in one case the advance redounds to private advantage and in the other, theoretically, to the public good, does not alter the core assumptions common to both.
- (intransitive) To contribute to the honour, shame etc. of a person or organisation. [from 15th c.]
- 2008, Peter Preston, The Observer, 2 Mar 2008:
- One thing about the 'John McCain-didn't-sleep-with-a-lobbyist' story redounds to the New York Times' credit.
- 2008, Peter Preston, The Observer, 2 Mar 2008:
- (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.]
- His infamous behaviour only redounded back upon him when he was caught.
- (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.
- 1667, John Milton, “Book 7”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: Printed [by Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […] [a]nd by Robert Boulter […] [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], OCLC 228722708 ↗; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: The Text Exactly Reproduced from the First Edition of 1667: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554 ↗:
- The evil, soon driven back, redounded as a flood on those from whom it sprung.
- German: zurückfallen, einholen
redound (plural redounds)
- A coming back, as an effect or consequence; a return.
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