Redound

/ɹɪˈdaʊnd/ · verb

Meaning

(obsolete, intransitive) To swell up (of water, waves etc.); to overflow, to surge (of bodily fluids)..

Definitions by Sense

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

Example Sentences

For every dram of hony therein found / A pound of gall doth over it redound […].

The honour done to our religion ultimately redounds to God, the author of it.

The fact that in one case the advance redounds to private advantage and in the other, theoretically, to the public good, does not alter the core assumptions common to both.

He [Sam Altman] came with a message that was both chilling and inspiring: without proper controls, advanced artificial intelligence might spell doom—but if you trust OpenAI to build it first, the technology will redound to the good of humanity.

I did not omit even our Sports and Paſtimes, or any other Particular which I thought might redound to the Honour of my Country.

One thing about the ‘John McCain-didn’t-sleep-with-a-lobbyist’ story redounds to the New York Times’ credit.

Runciman viewed many of the Crusades’ protagonists with sympathy, but he thought that the movement as a whole was destructive and did not redound to the honour of the faith.

His infamous behaviour only redounded back upon him when he was caught.

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• redounds
• redounding
• redounded

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