REDOUND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does redound mean? 

• REDOUND (verb)
  The verb REDOUND has 3 senses:

1. return or recoil

2. contribute

3. have an effect for good or ill

  Familiarity information: REDOUND used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REDOUND (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they redound    ... he / she / it redounds   
Past simple: redounded   
Past participle: redounded   
-ing form: redounding   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Return or recoil

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Context example:

Fame redounds to the heroes

Hypernyms (to "redound" is one way to...):

return (return in kind)

Sentence frame:

Something is ----ing PP

Sense 2

Meaning:

Contribute

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

Everything redounded to his glory

Hypernyms (to "redound" is one way to...):

accrue (grow by addition)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Sense 3

Meaning:

Have an effect for good or ill

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

Her efforts will redound to the general good

Hypernyms (to "redound" is one way to...):

affect; bear on; bear upon; impact; touch; touch on (have an effect upon)

Sentence frame:

Something is ----ing PP

 Context examples 

I did not omit even our sports and pastimes, or any other particular which I thought might redound to the honour of my country.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

All I can say is, that my friend Heep has responded to appeals to which I need not more particularly refer, in a manner calculated to redound equally to the honour of his head, and of his heart.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)