Rewind

Quick meaning: Rewind is a verb meaning (transitive, intransitive) To wind (something) again.

Meaning

(transitive, intransitive) To wind (something) again.

More Meanings

1. (figurative) To go back or think back to a previous moment or place, or a previous point in a discourse.
2. The act of rewinding.
3. A button or other mechanism for rewinding.
4. (transitive, intransitive) To wind (something) back, now especially of a cassette or a video tape, CD, DVD etc.; to go back on a video or audio recording.

Example Sentences

I meant to pause the picture, but hit the rewind by mistake.

A Myrish crossbowman poked his head out a different window, got off a bolt, and ducked down to rewind.

If I had a time machine / And if life was a movie scene / I'd rewind, and I'd tell me / "Ru-u-u-u-u-u-u-un"

If you need to reload film, the cassette can be rewound slightly by turning the hub located on one end of its spool.

Word Forms

• rewinds
• rewinding
• rewound

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include rollback, regress, backtrack, retrogressive, backward, rewrite.

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