Word Meanings - REDUPLICATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The doubling of a stem or syllable , with the effect of changing the time expressed, intensifying the meaning, or making the word more imitative; also, the syllable thus added; as, L. tetuli; poposci. (more info) 1. The act of doubling, or the

Additional info about word: REDUPLICATION

The doubling of a stem or syllable , with the effect of changing the time expressed, intensifying the meaning, or making the word more imitative; also, the syllable thus added; as, L. tetuli; poposci. (more info) 1. The act of doubling, or the state of being doubled. 2. A figure in which the first word of a verse is the same as the last word of the preceding verse.

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  Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker.
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  To render more intense; as, to intensify heat or cold; to intensify colors; to intensify a photographic negative; to intensify animosity. Bacon. How piercing is the sting of pride By want embittered and intensified. Longfellow.
• SYLLABLE
  1. An elementary sound, or a combination of elementary sounds, uttered together, or with a single effort or impulse of the voice, and constituting a word or a part of a word. In other terms, it is a vowel or a diphtong, either by itself or flanked
• ADDUCT
  To draw towards a common center or a middle line. Huxley.
• ADDLE-BRAIN; ADDLE-HEAD; ADDLE-PATE
  A foolish or dull-witted fellow.
• DOUBLEGANGER
  An apparition or double of a living person; a doppelgänger. Either you are Hereward, or you are his doubleganger. C. Kingsley.
• ADDUCTION
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• MAKING-IRON
  A tool somewhat like a chisel with a groove in it, used by calkers of ships to finish the seams after the oakum has been driven in.
• DOUBLE-SHADE
  To double the natural darkness of . Milton.
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• DOUBLE-LOCK
  To lock with two bolts; to fasten with double security. Tatler.
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  Proper to be added; positive; -- opposed to subtractive.
• ADDOOM
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• DOUBLE DEALER
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• EFFECTUOSE; EFFECTUOUS
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  Having a false heart; deceitful; treacherous. Sandys.
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