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Resounded vs Rebounded - What's the difference?

resounded | rebounded |

As verbs the difference between resounded and rebounded

is that resounded is (resound) while rebounded is (rebound).

resounded

English

Verb

(head)
  • (resound)

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    resound

    English

    Etymology 1

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to sound again
  • to echo a sound

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) resownen, from (etyl) resoner, from (etyl)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to reverberate with sound or noise
    • The street resounded with the noise of the children's game.
  • to make a reverberating sound
    • The sound of the brass band resounded through the town.
  • To throw back, or return, the sound of; to echo.
  • * Alexander Pope
    • Albion's cliffs resound the rural lay.
  • To praise or celebrate with the voice, or the sound of instruments; to extol with sounds; to spread the fame of.
  • * Alexander Pope
    • The man for wisdom's various arts renowned, / Long exercised in woes, O muse, resound .
    Derived terms
    * resounded * resounding

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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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