Usually means: Contribute significantly to; rebound, reflect.
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We found 27 dictionaries that define the word redound:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. redound: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. redound: Merriam-Webster
  3. redound: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. redound: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. redound: Collins English Dictionary
  6. redound: Vocabulary.com
  7. redound: Wordnik
  8. redound: Wiktionary
  9. redound: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. redound: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. redound: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Redound, redound: Dictionary.com
  13. redound: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Redound: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. redound: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. redound: Rhymezone
  17. Redound: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. redound: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. redound: FreeDictionary.org
  20. redound: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  21. redound: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. redound: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. redound: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. redound: A Word A Day
  2. redound: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (obsolete, intransitive) To swell up (of water, waves etc.); to overflow, to surge (of bodily fluids).
verb:  (intransitive) To contribute to an advantage or disadvantage for someone or something.
verb:  (intransitive) To contribute to the honour, shame etc. of a person or organisation.
verb:  (intransitive) To reverberate, to echo.
verb:  (transitive) To reflect (honour, shame etc.) to or onto someone.
verb:  (intransitive) To attach, come back, accrue to someone; to reflect back on or upon someone (of honour, shame etc.).
verb:  (intransitive) To arise from or out of something.
verb:  (intransitive, of a wave, flood, etc.) To roll back; to be sent or driven back.
noun:  A coming back, as an effect or consequence; a return.

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