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Redouble
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Verb Redouble has 3 senses
- redouble(v = verb.change) Array - double in magnitude, extent, or intensity; "The enemy redoubled their screaming on the radio" is one way to escalate, intensify, step up
- redouble(v = verb.change) Array - double again; "The noise doubled and redoubled" is one way to double, duplicate
- redouble(v = verb.change) Array - make twice as great or intense; "The screaming redoubled" is one way to deepen, intensify
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CIDE DICTIONARY
Redouble, v. t. [Pref. re- + double: cf. F. redoubler. Cf. Reduplicate.].
To double again or repeatedly; to increase by continued or repeated additions; to augment greatly; to multiply. [1913 Webster]
"So they
Doubly redoubled strokes upon the foe." [1913 Webster]
Doubly redoubled strokes upon the foe." [1913 Webster]
Redouble, v. i.
To become greatly or repeatedly increased; to be multiplied; to be greatly augmented; as, the noise redoubles. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
Redouble, v. & n.
--v.
1 tr. & intr. make or grow greater or more intense or numerous; intensify, increase.
2 intr. Bridge double again a bid already doubled by an opponent.
--n. Bridge the redoubling of a bid.
--v.
1 tr. & intr. make or grow greater or more intense or numerous; intensify, increase.
2 intr. Bridge double again a bid already doubled by an opponent.
--n. Bridge the redoubling of a bid.
Etymology
F redoubler (as RE-, DOUBLE)
THESAURUS
Redouble
accelerate, aggravate, beef up, blow up, come again, complicate, concentrate, condense, consolidate, copy, deepen, ditto, do a repeat, do again, do over, double, dupe, duplicate, echo, enhance, exacerbate, exaggerate, geminate, heat up, heighten, hop up, hot up, imitate, ingeminate, intensify, jazz up, key up, magnify, make complex, mount, multiply by two, parrot, plagiarize, quote, ramify, redo, reduplicate, reecho, regurgitate, reincarnate, reinforce, renew, repeat, replicate, reproduce, revive, rise, rouse, say again, sharpen, soup up, step up, strengthen, triple, twin, whetROGET THESAURUS
Redouble
Increase
VB increase, augment, add to, enlarge, dilate, grow, wax, get ahead, gain strength, advance, run up, shoot up, rise, ascend, sprout, aggrandize, raise, exalt, deepen, heighten, strengthen, intensify, enhance, magnify, redouble, aggravate, exaggerate, exasperate, exacerbate, add fuel to the flame, oleum addere camino, superadd, spread.Duplication
VB double, redouble, duplicate, reduplicate, geminate, repeat, renew.Repetition
VB repeat, iterate, reiterate, reproduce, echo, reecho, drum, harp upon, battologize, hammer, redouble, recur, revert, return, reappear, recurse, renew, rehearse, do over again, say over again, ring the changes on, harp on the same string, din in the ear, drum in the ear, conjugate in all its moods tenses and inflexions, begin again, go over the same ground, go the same round, never hear the last of, resume, return to, recapitulate, reword.
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