redound
/ɹɪˈdaʊnd/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.45 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To swell up (of water, waves etc.); to overflow, to surge (of bodily fluids).
Intransitive verb; Obsolete
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."
Etymology
From Anglo-Norman redunder, Middle French redonder, and their source, Latin redundō, from red- + undō (“surge”), from unda (“a wave”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ɹɪˈdaʊnd/
- British English: /ɹɪˈdaʊnd/