redound

Meaning

Noun

A coming back, as an effect or consequence; a return.

Verb

1. (obsolete) To swell up (of water, waves etc.); to overflow, to surge (of bodily fluids).
2. To contribute to an advantage or disadvantage for someone or something.
3. To contribute to the honour, shame etc. of a person or organisation.
4. To reverberate, to echo.
5. To reflect (honour, shame etc.) to or onto someone.
6. To attach, come back, accrue to someone; to reflect back on or upon someone (of honour, shame etc.).
7. To arise from or out of something.
8. To roll back; to be sent or driven back.

Synonyms

conduce

advance

act

act upon

add

add on

add to

adjoin

admix

advantage

affect

appear

append

augment

become

benefit

blend in

conclude

contribute

cut

cut in

echo

end up

enhance

exasperate

foster

further

gain

give

impact

impinge

impress

increase

influence

insert

intensify

interlard

intersperse

kick in

lace

move

prepossess

promote

put on

resound

result

reverberate

reverberation

run up

seem

serve

smell

👃

strike

subserve

suffix

tend

throw in

toss in

weigh

work

re-echo

tack on

abet

tag on

abut

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɹɪˈdaʊnd/

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman redunder, Middle French redonder, and their source, Latin rēdundō, from rē + undō (“surge”), from unda (“a wave”).