Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To have an effect or consequence: deeds that redound to one's discredit.
- v. To return; recoil: Glory redounds upon the brave.
- v. To contribute; accrue.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To overflow; be redundant; be in excess; remain over and above.
- To be sent, rolled, or driven back; roll or flow back, as a wave; rebound.
- To conduce; result; turn out; have effect.
- n. The coming back, as of consequence or effect; result; reflection; return.
- n. Reverberation; echo.
- n. Imp. Dict.
Wiktionary
- v. To result in, to contribute (to a specified situation or consequence).
- v. To attach, come back, accrue (to or upon someone).
- v. To arise or occur in consequence (from or out of something).
- v. obsolete To swell, surge up (of waves, liquid etc.).
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. 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.
- v. To be in excess; to remain over and above; to be redundant; to overflow.
- n. The coming back, as of consequence or effect; result; return; requital.
- n. rare Rebound; reverberation.
WordNet 3.0
- v. have an effect for good or ill
- v. return or recoil
- v. contribute.
Etymologies
- From French rédonder, from Latin rēdundō, from rē + undō ("surge"), from unda ("a wave"). (Wiktionary)
- Middle English redounden, to flow abundantly, from Old French redonder, from Latin redundāre, to overflow; see redundant. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
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Obama Campaign: Exit Polls Show "Significant Improvements" Over Our Performance In Ohio
“The things laid to thy charge whereof thou hast spoken, whether such as redound to thy credit, or mere false accusations, are publicly known.”
“The latest debacle -- the fight to extend unemployment insurance and the payroll tax cut -- appears to have demonstrably hurt the Republicans and helped the Democrats especially the president, and one might expect that ensuing fights will redound similarly, i.e., the public appears to be internalizing the meme that the Democrats are fighting for the middle class while the Republicans are fighting for the rich.”
“Moreover, one can probably expect that ensuing fights will redound similarly, as the public appears to be internalizing the meme that the Democrats are fighting for the middle class while the Republicans are fighting for the rich.”
“This misperception of the war effort generates tangible effects that redound specifically to the executive's benefit.”
The Huffington Post: David Isenberg: We Don't Need No Stinking Democracy
“NFL revenues run to $8 billion a year and, as Forbes magazine frequently points out, many other benefits redound to owners of sports franchises, even if those benefits don't show up on franchise balance sheets.”
“The practice itself may not redound to the benefit of the school but barring unusual circumstances, it's not so manifestly unjust as to be condemnable outright.”
“But as I highlighted in the post, such a practice is unlikely to redound to the benefit of the school, a point both you and Leiter agree with I think, and it's not a practice I recommend, even if it's a practice I might think is not unreasonable in some small number of cases.”
““So a united Romulan Empire would redound to the benefit of the Pact,” Alizome concluded, “and therefore to the benefit of the Tzenkethi Coalition.””
Simon & Schuster: Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire
“It ought to redound to Islamic disgrace that it continues to do so.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘redound’.
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GRE 2014
abase, abate, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abjure, abortive, abound, abrasive, abreast, abridge and 1577 more...
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EN - archaic words
abide, abjure, abroad, adamant, afield, aforetime, aghast, anon, apace, argent, assuage, aught and 328 more...
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New words
new words or spelling issues
voluble, Metagrobolize, salubrious, calumny, fugacity, withdrawal, bourse, hypertrophy, leitmotif, argot, improvident, damask and 238 more...
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Waves and Waveforms
wave, brainwave, soliton, traveling wave, tidal wave, transverse wave, capillary wave, cats' paws, alpha wave, light wave, microwave, acoustic wave and 314 more...
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raad, rabanna, rabbet, rabble, Rabelaisian, rabic, racemation, raceme, racemiferous, rach, rachidian, rachiometer and 514 more...
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Naresh_Gre2
convoke, cosset, coterie, declaim, distaff, doff, dovetail, droll, dyspeptic, egress, ersatz, euphemism and 108 more...
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Words of the Day
Words that have been words of the day that are pretty good words.
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Last Words
Endings, results, and pinnacles. The ideal here is to somehow imply the paradoxical concept of "after-endings".
consequence, aftermath, finality, outcome, postmundane, endgame, redound, cloture, bourne, meridian, memento mori, psychopomp and 72 more...
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man gre
abase, abeyance, abreast, abscission, abscond, abyss, accede, accretion, acerbic, acidulous, acumen, adulterate and 483 more...
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dolphins gambolling
based on quote by Hesychius of Batos thornbush
who it is believed lived sometime between 700 and 900 AD
The heart that is freed from imaginings ends up by producing in itself hol...reflection, examen, nepsis, ruminate, contemplate, muller, soul-searching, reflect, flash, coruscate, redound, debuscope and 16 more...
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6691 more...
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gre2
aberrant, aberration, aboveboard, abrasive, abstemious, acme, admonish, affable, affluent, alacrity, allegory, alleviate and 1834 more...
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Potpourri
eponymous, aa, pulchritude, gizmo, macabre, sui generis, solecism, solipsism, eldritch, samizdat, queue, obsequious and 469 more...
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difficult words
ordure, tatterwallop, callipygian, odious, colophon, cynosure, hardener, emollience, valetudinarian, demonym, volage, polysemantic and 257 more...
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Clarissa, Or, The History of a Young ...
These words are from Samuel Richardson's novel Clarissa, Or, The History of a Young Lady, 1747-48
adumbrate, virago, varlet, rencounter, akimbo, palliate, amanuensis, amok, equipage, cully, se'ennight, resentments and 560 more...
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Words to Try to Use in Colloquial Spe...
surquedry, equivocate, putative, turgid, congeries, irrefragable, quiddity, zaftig, flagitious, bloviate, perfidy, compendious and 227 more...
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