Usually means: Contribute significantly to; rebound, reflect.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word redound:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. redound: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. redound: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. redound: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. redound: Collins English Dictionary
  5. redound: Vocabulary.com
  6. redound: Wordnik
  7. redound: Wiktionary
  8. redound: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. redound: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. redound: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Redound, redound: Dictionary.com
  12. redound: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Redound: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. redound: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. redound: Rhymezone
  16. Redound: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. redound: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. redound: Free Dictionary
  19. redound: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  20. redound: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. redound: Dictionary/thesaurus

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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