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redounded

redounded is the simple past and past participle of redound.

Meaning of redound

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
  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...
  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.

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Questions about redounded

What is redounded the simple past and past participle of?
Redounded is the simple past and past participle of redound.

Words near redounded in the dictionary

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

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