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Rewound vs Resound - What's the difference?

rewound | resound |

As verbs the difference between rewound and resound

is that rewound is (rewind) while resound is to sound again or resound can be to reverberate with sound or noise.

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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    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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