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Resounded vs Redounded - What's the difference?

resounded | redounded |

As verbs the difference between resounded and redounded

is that resounded is (resound) while redounded is (redound).

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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    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.

    Related terms

    * redundance * redundancy * redundant

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