rewind
Syllables: re·wind/ɹiːˈwaɪnd/
rewind verb: to wind (something) again.
Verb
rewind (third-person singular simple present rewinds, present participle rewinding, simple past and past participle rewound)
- To wind (something) again.
- A Myrish crossbowman poked his head out a different window, got off a bolt, and ducked down to rewind.2000 August 8, George R[aymond] R[ichard] Martin, “Arya [Stark]”, in A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire; 3), London: Voyager, →ISBN, page 440
- […] she was winding and rewinding bandages that were dripping in blood, smiling strangely at her as the plasma spilled from buckets all over the floor.2012, Paul Kelly, The Surgeon Was a Lady
- To wind back, of something clocklike or recordlike, like a cassette, tape, film; especially to then replay or relive.
- Let's rewind the clock to an earlier time.
- Rewind the tape to the first chapter.
- To regress the state of playback of a recording.
- I've rewound the audiobook to the start of the chapter.
- This video player can rewind smoothly.
- To go back or think back to a previous moment or place, or a previous point in a discourse.
- If I had a time machine / And if life was a movie scene / I'd rewind, and I'd tell me / "Ru-u-u-u-u-u-u-un"2014, Ingrid Michaelson, Trent Dabbs, busbee, “Time Machine”, in Lights Out, performed by Ingrid Michaelson
- To understand Russia, you have to dive deep into its history — boyars and czars, Pushkin and Pasternak, Stalin and Stalingrad. To understand the perils of underestimating Russia, you don't have to go back that far. Just rewind to 2001, when George W. Bush naively sized up Vladimir Putin as a leader...December 12 2016, Editorial Team, “Editorial: Trump, Putin and the risks of a reset”, in Chicago Tribune
Noun
rewind (plural rewinds)
rewind meaning in Urdu, Bengali, Telugu and Kannada
rewind in Urdu
- دوبارہ چابی دینا, دوبارہ لپیٹنا
rewind in Bengali
- রিভাইন্ড করতে, রিভাইন্ড করা
rewind in Telugu
- రివైండ్ చెయ్యడానికి
rewind in Kannada
- ಹಿಂದಕ್ಕೆ ಸುತ್ತು, ಮರುಸುತ್ತು
More languagesFewer languages
- rewind in Odia
- ରିଭାଇଣ୍ଡ କରିବା ପାଇଁ, ରିଭାଇଣ୍ଡ କରିବା, ରିଭାଇଣ୍ଡ କରିବାକୁ
- rewind in Nepali
- रिवाइन्ड गर्न
- rewind in Vietnamese
- quấn lại
Examples of rewind in a sentence
- Do not rewind so much that the leader disappears into the cassette.
- I'd neglected to explain Slingbox, so when I started pausing, rewinding, and slo-mo-ing, she became understandably vexed.
- After you insert the tape in the deck, you fast forward it to the end and then completely rewind it.
Forms of rewind
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | rewinds |
| present participle | rewinding |
| past participle | rewound |
| past | rewound |
| Noun | |
| plural | rewinds |
Origin of rewind
From re- + wind.
Words formed from rewind
Words that rhyme with rewind
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- signed
- unbind
- unkind
- unmind
- aligned
- chined
- combined
- defined
- designed
- Glynde
- hind
- inclined
- intertwined
- rebind
- spined
- to one's mind
- unassigned
- undersigned
- uninclined
- unlined
- upwind
- vined
- wynd
- amind
- animalkind
- assigned
- brined
- crined
- declined
- dined
- enshrined
- entwined
- fined
- humankind
- mined
- misaligned
- pined
- presence of mind
- re-signed
- realigned
- reassigned
- redefined
- redesigned
- remind
- resigned
- rined
- shined
- twined
Questions about rewind
- What does rewind mean?
- Rewind means to wind (something) again.
- What is rewind in Urdu?
- Rewind in Urdu is دوبارہ چابی دینا, دوبارہ لپیٹنا. See Rewind meaning in Urdu.
- What part of speech is rewind?
- Rewind can be a verb or a noun.
- How do you pronounce rewind?
- Rewind is pronounced /ɹiːˈwaɪnd/ (UK).
- What is the past tense of rewind?
- The past tense of rewind is rewound.
Words near rewind in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: rewind (page history and authors); rewind (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); rewind (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); rewind (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); rewind (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); rewind (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); rewind (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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