How to pronounce "redounds"

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Definition of "redounds"

Verb

  • To swell up (of water, waves etc.); to overflow, to surge (of bodily fluids).
  • To contribute to an advantage or disadvantage for someone or something.
  • To contribute to the honour, shame etc. of a person or organisation.
  • To reverberate, to echo.
  • To reflect (honour, shame etc.) to or onto someone.
  • To attach, come back, accrue to someone; to reflect back on or upon someone (of honour, shame etc.).
    Example: "His infamous behaviour only redounded back upon him when he was caught."
  • To arise from or out of something.
  • (of a wave, flood, etc.) To roll back; to be sent or driven back.

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