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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Verb reduplicate has 2 senses
- reduplicate(v = verb.creation) geminate - form by reduplication; "The consonant reduplicates after a short vowel"; "The morpheme can be reduplicated to emphasize the meaning of the word" is one way to double, duplicate, reduplicate, repeat, replicate
- reduplicate(v = verb.creation) double, duplicate, repeat, replicate - make or do or perform again; "He could never replicate his brilliant performance of the magic trick" is one way to reproduce
Sample sentence:
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Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
CIDE DICTIONARY
reduplicate, a. [Pref. re- + duplicate: cf. L. reduplicatus. Cf. Redouble.].
- Double; doubled; reduplicative; repeated. [1913 Webster]
- Valvate with the margins curved outwardly; -- said of the 1913 Webster]
reduplicate, v. t. [Cf. LL. reduplicare.].
- To redouble; to multiply; to repeat. [1913 Webster]
- To repeat the first letter or letters of (a word). See Reduplication, 3. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
reduplicate, v.tr.
1 make double.
2 repeat.
3 repeat (a letter or syllable or word) exactly or with a slight change (e.g. hurly-burly, see-saw).
1 make double.
2 repeat.
3 repeat (a letter or syllable or word) exactly or with a slight change (e.g. hurly-burly, see-saw).
Derivative
reduplication n. reduplicative adj.
Etymology
LL reduplicare (as RE-, DUPLICATE)
ROGET THESAURUS
reduplicate
Duplication
VB double, redouble, duplicate, reduplicate, geminate, repeat, renew.
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