Redound

Quick meaning: Redound is a verb meaning (intransitive) To contribute to an advantage or disadvantage for someone or something.

Meaning

(intransitive) To contribute to an advantage or disadvantage for someone or something.

More Meanings

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

Example Sentences

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

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

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

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

Word Forms

• redounds
• redounding
• redounded

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include result, lead, reburgeon, peal, repercuss, swell.

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