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 Meaning of REDOUND
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[v]  have an effect for good or ill; "Her efforts will redound to the general good"  [v]  be added; "Everything he does redounds to himself"  [v]  be deflected; "His actions redound on his parents"  [v]  be excessive in quantity   |  |  |  |  | Sponsored Links: |  |  |  |  |  |  | See Also: |  | accrue, affect, bear on, bear upon, dominate, impact, predominate, prevail, reflect, reign, rule, touch, touch on |  |     |  |  Webster's 1913 Dictionary |  |  |  |  | Definition: |  | 
\Re*dound"\ (r?*dound"), v. i. [imp. & p. p.
{Redounded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Redounding}.] [F. redonder, L.
redundare; pref. red-, re-, re- + undare to rise in waves or
surges, fr. unda a wave. See {Undulate}, and cf.
{Redundant}.]
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.
\Re*dound"\, n.
1. The coming back, as of consequence or effect; result;
   return; requital.
         We give you welcome; not without redound Of use and
         glory to yourselves ye come.          --Tennyson.
2. Rebound; reverberation. [R.] --Codrington.
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