Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

1. (transitive, intransitive) To wind (something) again.
2. (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.
3. (figurative) To go back or think back to a previous moment or place, or a previous point in a discourse.
4. The act of rewinding.
5. A button or other mechanism for rewinding.

Example Sentences

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

[…] she was winding and rewinding bandages that were dripping in blood, smiling strangely at her as the plasma spilled from buckets all over the floor.

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

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"

To understand Russia, you have to dive deep into its history — boyars and czars, Pushkin and Pasternak, Stalin and Stalingrad. To understand the perils of underestimating Russia, you don't have to go back that far. Just rewind to 2001, when George W. Bush naively sized up Vladimir Putin as a leader he could work with, a conclusion Bush reached when he looked into the Russian leader's eyes and "found him to be very straightforward and trustworthy.

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

Word Forms

• rewinds
• rewinding
• rewound

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When Should You Use Rewind?

Use rewind when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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