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Rewound vs Redound - What's the difference?

rewound | redound |

As verbs the difference between rewound and redound

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

rewound

English

Verb

(head)
  • (rewind)

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    rewind

    English

    Verb

  • (intransitive) To wind (something) again.
  • * 2000 , (George RR Martin), A Storm of Swords , Bantam 2011, p. 535:
    • A Myrish crossbowman poked his head out a different window, got off a bolt, and ducked down to rewind .
  • (intransitive) To wind (something) back, now especially of cassette or video tape; to go back on a video or audio recording.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of rewinding.
  • A button or other mechanism for rewinding.
    • I meant to pause the picture, but hit the rewind by mistake.

    See also

    * fast forward

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    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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