Word Meanings - REDOUND - Book Publishers vocabulary database

undare to rise in waves or surges, fr. unda a wave. See Undulate, and 1. To roll back, as a wave or flood; to be sent or driven back; to flow back, as a consequence or effect; to conduce; to contribute; to result. The evil, soon Driven

Additional info about word: REDOUND

undare to rise in waves or surges, fr. unda a wave. See Undulate, and 1. To roll back, as a wave or flood; to be sent or driven back; to flow back, as a consequence or effect; to conduce; to contribute; to result. The evil, soon Driven back, redounded as a flood on those From whom it sprung. Milton. The honor done to our religion ultimately redounds to God, the author of it. Rogers. both . . . will devour great quantities of paper, there will no small use redound from them to that manufacture. Addison. 2. To be in excess; to remain over and above; to be redundant; to overflow. For every dram of honey therein found, A pound of gall doth over it redound. Spenser.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of REDOUND)

• Refix
• Return
• ebb
• redound

Related words: (words related to REDOUND)

• REFIX
  To fix again or anew; to establish anew. Fuller.
• RETURNLESS
  Admitting no return. Chapman.
• RETURNER
  One who returns.
• RETURN
  1. To turn back; to go or come again to the same place or condition. "Return to your father's house." Chaucer. On their embattled ranks the waves return. Milton. If they returned out of bondage, it must be into a state of freedom. Locke. Dust thou
• RETURNABLE
  Legally required to be returned, delivered, given, or rendered; as, a writ or precept returnable at a certain day; a verdict returnable to the court. (more info) 1. Capable of, or admitting of, being returned.
• REDOUND
  undare to rise in waves or surges, fr. unda a wave. See Undulate, and 1. To roll back, as a wave or flood; to be sent or driven back; to flow back, as a consequence or effect; to conduce; to contribute; to result. The evil, soon Driven
• PREFIX
  prae before + figere to fix: cf. F. préfix fixed beforehand, 1. To put or fix before, or at the beginning of, another thing; as, to prefix a syllable to a word, or a condition to an agreement. 2. To set or appoint beforehand; to settle
• PREFIXION
  The act of prefixing. Bailey.
• IRRETURNABLE
  Not to be returned.