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redound | undefined |

As a verb redound

is (obsolete|intransitive) to swell up (of water, waves etc); to overflow, to surge (of bodily fluids).

As an adjective undefined is

lacking a definition or value.

redound

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • (obsolete) To swell up (of water, waves etc.); to overflow, to surge (of bodily fluids).
  • * 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , IV.10:
  • For every dram of hony therein found / A pound of gall doth over it redound […].
  • To contribute (to) an advantage or disadvantage for someone or something.
  • * Rogers
  • 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.
  • To contribute (to) the honour, shame etc. of a person or organisation.
  • * 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.
  • 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.).
  • His infamous behaviour only redounded back upon him when he was caught.
  • To arise (from) or (out of) something).
  • To roll back, as a wave or flood; to be sent or driven back.
  • * Milton
  • The evil, soon driven back, redounded as a flood on those from whom it sprung.

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    undefined

    English

    Adjective

    (wikipedia undefined) (-)
  • Lacking a definition or value.
  • (mathematics, computing) That does not have a meaning and is thus not assigned an interpretation.
  • The result of division by zero is undefined .

    Antonyms

    * defined