Redound
Pronunciation
- UK IPA: /ɹɪˈdaʊnd/, /ɹəˈdaʊnd/
- Rhymes: -aÊŠnd
Origin
From Anglo-Norman redounder, Middle French redonder, and their source, Latin rÄ“dundÅ, from rÄ“ + undÅ ("surge"), from unda ("a wave").
Full definition of redound
Verb
- (obsolete, intransitive) To swell up (of water, waves etc.); to overflow, to surge (of bodily fluids). 14th-19th c.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.10:For every dram of hony therein found
A pound of gall doth over it redound …. - (intransitive) To contribute to an advantage or disadvantage for someone or something. from 15th c.
- RogersThe honour done to our religion ultimately redounds to God, the author of it.
- 1970, Alvin Toffler, Future Shock, Bantam Books, p. 448: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.
- (intransitive) To contribute to the honour, shame etc. of a person or organisation. from 15th c.
- 2008, Peter Preston, The Observer, 2 Mar 2008:One thing about the 'John McCain-didn't-sleep-with-a-lobbyist' story redounds to the New York Times' credit.
- (intransitive) To reverberate, to echo. from 15th c.
- (transitive) To reflect (honour, shame etc.) to or onto someone. from 15th c.
- (intransitive) To attach, come back, accrue to someone; to reflect back on or upon someone (of honour, shame etc.). from 16th c.His infamous behaviour only redounded back upon him when he was caught.
- (intransitive) To arise from or out of something). from 16th c.
- To roll back, as a wave or flood; to be sent or driven back.
- MiltonThe evil, soon driven back, redounded as a flood on those from whom it sprung.