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redoubling

redoubling is the present participle and gerund of redouble.

Meaning of redouble

Verb

redouble (third-person singular simple present redoubles, present participle redoubling, simple past and past participle redoubled)

  1. (transitive) To double, especially to double again; to increase considerably; to multiply; to intensify.
    • Having lost sight of our objectives, we redoubled our efforts.
  2. To double an opponent's doubling bid.
  3. (intransitive) To become twice as big.
  4. To double again what was reduced to a single state.
    • Like the Conservatives and Labour, the Lib Dems plan to extend Britain's rail network, reopen stations and redouble singled routes.2019 December 4, “Lib Dems promise fares freeze and low-emission technology”, in Rail, page 6

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Noun

redoubling (plural redoublings)

  1. The act by which something is redoubled.
    • With their multiple narrators, labyrinthine story-within-a-story narrations, echoic redoublings and repetitions, and complex forms of self-referentiality, they repeatedly circumvent their own ostensibly orderly plot progressions.1990, Susan Hardy Aiken, Isak Dinesen and the Engendering of Narrative, page 70
    • Two short-term measures are proposed. The first is the redoubling of the junction, so that Up and Down trains on the Ely line no longer conflict with each other. The second is the provision of a passing loop.2020 April 22, Paul Shannon, “Felixstowe: Is 47 trains a day achievable?”, in Rail, page 51

Forms of redoubling

pluralredoublings

Questions about redoubling

What does redoubling mean?
Redoubling means the act by which something is redoubled.
What is redoubling the present participle and gerund of?
Redoubling is the present participle and gerund of redouble.
What part of speech is redoubling?
Redoubling is a noun.
What is the plural of redoubling?
The plural of redoubling is redoublings.

Words near redoubling in the dictionary

  1. redoublement
  2. redoublements
  3. redoubles
  4. redoublest
  5. redoubleth
  6. redoubling
  7. redoublings
  8. redoubt
  9. redoubtability
  10. redoubtable
  11. redoubtableness

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