Redound vs Remound - What's the difference?
redound | remound |
(obsolete) To swell up (of water, waves etc.); to overflow, to surge (of bodily fluids).
* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , IV.10:
To contribute (to) an advantage or disadvantage for someone or something.
* Rogers
* 1970 , Alvin Toffler, Future Shock , Bantam Books, p. 448:
To contribute (to) the honour, shame etc. of a person or organisation.
* 2008 , (Peter Preston), The Observer , 2 Mar 2008:
To reverberate, to echo.
To reflect (honour, shame etc.) (to) or (onto) someone.
To attach, come back, accrue (to) someone; to reflect back (on) or (upon) someone (of honour, shame etc.).
To arise (from) or (out of) something).
To roll back, as a wave or flood; to be sent or driven back.
* Milton
(remind)
* 1830 , Filaret, “On the Tenses of Greek Verbs” in The Gentleman’s Magazine, and Historical Chronicle , ed. Sylvanus Urban, volume 100, part 2,
* 1918 , The Judge (Judge Publishing Company), volume 75,
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the (l) or mounds of ((especially), a (l) or graves).
* 1916 , Economic Entomology: Pamphlets , volume 109,
* 1995 , L. R. Goldman, “The Depths of Deception: Cultural Schemas of Illusion in Huli”, chapter 3 in Papuan borderlands: Huli, Duna, and Ipili perspectives on the Papua New Guinea Highlands , ed. Aletta Biersack,
* 2006 , William Gay, Twilight (MacAdam/Cage Pub.; ISBN 1596920580, 9781596920583),
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(chiefly, in food preparation) into a mound.
* 1983 , William Shurtleff [aut.] and Akiko Aoyagi [illust.], The Book of Miso: Savory, High-protein Seasoning (2nd ed.; Ten Speed Press; ISBN 0898150973, 9780898150971),
* 1991 , Fred Bridge and Jean F. Tibbetts, The Well-Tooled Kitchen (Morrow),
* 1995 , Jesse Ziff Cool, Onions: A Country Garden Cookbook (Collins Publishers San Francisco; ISBN 0002554526, 9780002554527),
(rosiculture, rare) with a (l) mound.
* 1999 , Thomas Cairns, Ortho’s All About Roses (Meredith Books; ISBN 0897214285, 9780897214285),
As verbs the difference between redound and remound
is that redound is to swell up (of water, waves etc.); to overflow, to surge (of bodily fluids) while remound is past tense of remind.redound
English
Verb
(en verb)- For every dram of hony therein found / A pound of gall doth over it redound […].
- The honour done to our religion ultimately redounds to God, the author of it.
- 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.
- One thing about the 'John McCain-didn't-sleep-with-a-lobbyist' story redounds to the New York Times' credit.
- His infamous behaviour only redounded back upon him when he was caught.
- The evil, soon driven back, redounded as a flood on those from whom it sprung.
Anagrams
* *remound
English
Etymology 1
A (l) formed on the pattern of find ? found.Verb
(head)page 125
- [W]hat should we now think of the grammar which should run thus: 1. pret. I fighted,'' thou ''fightedst'', &c. 2d pret. ''I fought,'' &c. And again, 1st pret. ''I reminded,'' &c. 2d pret. I ''remound ?
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- I find — that is to say, I’ve found —
That when one knows “sink, sank and sunken,”
He soon is strenuously remound
He mustn’t say “blink, blank and blunken.”
Etymology 2
Verb
(en verb)page 1,130
- In some soils, mounds made earlier wash down, thus making it necessary to remound in the fall.
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- [W]omen may continue to remound old gardens for ten years or more.
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- He drove the spade into the earth mounded atop the grave and leaning his weight into the work began to remound the earth in a pile next the grave.
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- Remound koji into oval volcano shape, re-cover tray with lid set slightly ajar, and re-cover incubation box with blankets.
page 97
- Roll a rolling pin 1 to 2 times over the mixture to flatten the butter particles, gather into a mound again, then use the pastry blender to cut until powdery with some oatmeal-shaped flakes throughout; remound .
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- As the plant grows, move the tube upward and remound the dirt to cover the base and the blanched leaves.
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- Watch for wrinkling on the canes — the first sign of dehydration. If this occurs, recut the canes below the wrinkling, remound the plant, and water well.