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redound

/ɹɪˈdaʊnd/

redound verb: to swell up (of water, waves etc.); to overflow, to surge (of bodily fluids).

Verb

redound (third-person singular simple present redounds, present participle redounding, simple past and past participle redounded)

  1. (intransitive, obsolete) To swell up (of water, waves etc.); to overflow, to surge (of bodily fluids).
    • For every dram of hony therein found / A pound of gall doth over it redound […].1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
  2. (intransitive) To contribute to an advantage or disadvantage for someone or something.
    • The honour done to our religion ultimately redounds to God, the author of it.a. 1729, John Rogers, A prudent cobduct recommended and enforced
    • 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.1970, Alvin Toffler, Future Shock, Bantam Books, page 448
  3. (intransitive) To contribute to the honour, shame etc. of a person or organisation.
    • I did not omit even our Sports and Paſtimes, or any other Particular which I thought might redound to the Honour of my Country.1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “Several Contrivances of the Author to Please the King and Queen. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume I...
    • One thing about the ‘John McCain-didn’t-sleep-with-a-lobbyist’ story redounds to the New York Times’ credit.2008 March 2, Peter Preston, The Observer
  4. (intransitive) To reverberate, to echo.
  5. (transitive) To reflect (honour, shame etc.) to or onto someone.
  6. (intransitive) 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.
    • […] that is, they concede the accuracy of certain classic attacks on communism, but in ways that redound on their opponents.2022, China Miéville, chapter 3, in A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto, →OCLC
  7. (intransitive) To arise from or out of something.
  8. (intransitive, usually, flood) To roll back; to be sent or driven back.
    • The evil, soon driven back, redounded as a flood on those from whom it sprung.1667, John Milton, “Book VII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished...

Noun

redound (plural redounds)

  1. A coming back, as an effect or consequence; a return.

redound meaning in Bengali, Malayalam and Kannada

redound in Bengali

উপচে পড়া, তীব্রভাবে প্রবাহিত হওয়া

redound in Malayalam

ഉപയോഗപ്പെടുത്തുക, ഗുണകരമായിത്തീരുക, കവിഞ്ഞൊഴുകുക

redound in Kannada

ಸೇರಿಸು, ಮಾರೆಸಗು, ಹಿಂದೆಬರು

Forms of redound

Verb
third-person singular presentredounds
present participleredounding
past participleredounded
pastredounded
Noun
pluralredounds

Origin of redound

From Anglo-Norman redunder, Middle French redonder, and their source, Latin redundō, from red- + undō (“surge”), from unda (“a wave”).

Words that rhyme with redound

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Questions about redound

What does redound mean?
Redound means to swell up (of water, waves etc.); to overflow, to surge (of bodily fluids).
What is redound in Bengali?
Redound in Bengali is উপচে পড়া, তীব্রভাবে প্রবাহিত হওয়া. See Redound meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is redound?
Redound can be a verb or a noun.
How do you pronounce redound?
Redound is pronounced /ɹɪˈdaʊnd/ (UK).
What is the past tense of redound?
The past tense of redound is redounded.

Words near redound in the dictionary

  1. redoubts
  2. redouche
  3. redouched
  4. redouches
  5. redouching
  6. redound
  7. redounded
  8. redoundeth
  9. redounding
  10. redoundingly
  11. redounds

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: redound (page history and authors); redound (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); redound (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); redound (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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