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redoubted

redoubted is the simple past and past participle of redoubt.

Meaning of redoubt

Verb (1)

redoubt (third-person singular simple present redoubts, present participle redoubting, simple past and past participle redoubted)

  1. (transitive) To fortify, to make into a stronghold.
    • By the time that our troops had taken a little refreshment, a quantity of intrenching tools were brought a-shore, and the regiments were employed in redoubting our ground, and landing some cannon and ammunition.1769, John Knox, An Historical Journal Of The Campaigns in North-America, page 72

Verb (2)

redoubt (third-person singular simple present redoubts, present participle redoubting, simple past and past participle redoubted)

  1. (archaic) To dread.

Verb (3)

redoubt (third-person singular simple present redoubts, present participle redoubting, simple past and past participle redoubted)

  1. (rare) To doubt again.
    • Neither any of ſo many hundreds of expleaded, or nowe raigning hereſies, or any that ſhall ariſe hereafter, nor the Religion of Martine Luther so often profeſſed, and both priuately and publickly recanted, altered, changed, doubted, and redoubted by himſelfe, as his owne works and all proteſtants...1601, R. Broughton, An apologicall epistle, page 20

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Questions about redoubted

What is redoubted the simple past and past participle of?
Redoubted is the simple past and past participle of redoubt.

Words near redoubted in the dictionary

  1. redoubt
  2. redoubtability
  3. redoubtable
  4. redoubtableness
  5. redoubtably
  6. redoubted
  7. redoubting
  8. redoubts
  9. redouche
  10. redouched
  11. redouches

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