Thesaurus: redound

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1. v. i. To roll back, as a wave or flood; to be sent or driven back; to flow back, as a consequence or effect; to conduce; to contribute; to result.
2. v. i. To be in excess; to remain over and above; to be redundant; to overflow.
3. n. The coming back, as of consequence or effect; result; return; requital.
4. n. Rebound; reverberation.
5. v. return or recoil
6. v. contribute
7. v. have an effect for good or ill
8. 1. To roll back, as a wave or flood; to be sent or driven back; to flow back, as a consequence or effect; to conduce; to contribute; to result. The evil, soon Driven back, redounded as a flood on those From whom it sprung. Milton. The honor done to our religion ultimately redounds to God, the author of it. Rogers. both . . . will devour great quantities of paper, there will no small use redound from them to that manufacture. Addison. 2. To be in excess; to remain over and above; to be redundant; to overflow. For every dram of honey therein found, A pound of gall doth over it redound. Spenser. 1. The coming back, as of consequence or effect; result; return; requital. We give you welcome; not without redound Of use and glory to yourselves ye come. Tennyson. 2. Rebound; reverberation. [R.] Codrington.
9. v:100 v. return or recoil v. contribute v. have an effect for good or ill