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Redounded vs Rebounded - What's the difference?

redounded | rebounded |

As verbs the difference between redounded and rebounded

is that redounded is (redound) while rebounded is (rebound).

redounded

English

Verb

(head)
  • (redound)

  • 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.

    Anagrams

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    rebounded

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (rebound)

  • rebound

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) rebondir.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The recoil of an object bouncing off another.
  • A return to health or well-being; a recovery.
  • I am on the rebound .
  • An effort to recover from a setback.
  • A romantic partner with whom one begins a relationship (or the relationship one begins) for the sake of getting over a previous, recently-ended romantic relationship.
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  • (sports) The strike of the ball after it has bounced off a defending player, the crossbar or goalpost.
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2010 , date=December 28 , author=Kevin Darling , title=West Brom 1 - 3 Blackburn , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=The inevitable Baggies onslaught followed as substitute Simon Cox saw his strike excellently parried by keeper Bunn, with Cox heading the rebound down into the ground and agonisingly over the bar. }}
  • (basketball) An instance of catching the ball after it has hit the rim or backboard without a basket being scored, generally credited to a particular player.
  • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To bound or spring back from a force.
  • * Sir Isaac Newton
  • Bodies which are absolutely hard, or so soft as to be void of elasticity, will not rebound from one another.
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2012 , date=August 23 , author=Alasdair Lamont , title=Hearts 0-1 Liverpool , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Martin Kelly fired in a dangerous cross and the Hearts defender looked on in horror as the ball rebounded off him and into the net.}}
  • To give back an echo.
  • (figuratively) To jump up or get back up again.
  • (Alexander Pope)
  • To send back; to reverberate.
  • * Dryden
  • Silenus sung; the vales his voice rebound , / And carry to the skies the sacred sound.

    See also

    * bound (verb)

    Etymology 2

    see rebind

    Verb

    (head)
  • (rebind)
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