Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to redound
Participle: redounded
Gerund: redounding
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | redound |
| you | redound |
| he;she;it | redounds |
| we | redound |
| you | redound |
| they | redound |
Perfect
| I | have redounded |
| you | have redounded |
| he;she;it | has redounded |
| we | have redounded |
| you | have redounded |
| they | have redounded |
Past
| I | redounded |
| you | redounded |
| he;she;it | redounded |
| we | redounded |
| you | redounded |
| they | redounded |
Pluperfect
| I | had redounded |
| you | had redounded |
| he;she;it | had redounded |
| we | had redounded |
| you | had redounded |
| they | had redounded |
Future
| I | will redound |
| you | will redound |
| he;she;it | will redound |
| we | will redound |
| you | will redound |
| they | will redound |
Future Perfect
| I | will have redounded |
| you | will have redounded |
| he;she;it | will have redounded |
| we | will have redounded |
| you | will have redounded |
| they | will have redounded |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | redound |
| you | redound |
| he;she;it | redound |
| we | redound |
| you | redound |
| they | redound |
Perfect
| I | have redounded |
| you | have redounded |
| he;she;it | have redounded |
| we | have redounded |
| you | have redounded |
| they | have redounded |
Imperfect
| I | redounded |
| you | redounded |
| he;she;it | redounded |
| we | redounded |
| you | redounded |
| they | redounded |
Pluperfect
| I | had redounded |
| you | had redounded |
| he;she;it | had redounded |
| we | had redounded |
| you | had redounded |
| they | had redounded |
Conditional
Present
| I | would redound |
| you | would redound |
| he;she;it | would redound |
| we | would redound |
| you | would redound |
| they | would redound |
Perfect
| I | would have redounded |
| you | would have redounded |
| he;she;it | would have redounded |
| we | would have redounded |
| you | would have redounded |
| they | would have redounded |
Imperative
| you | redound |
| we | Let's redound |
| you | redound |
Verbs conjugated like 'redound'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'redound'
rebound,
refound,
remound,
resound,
bewound,
re-sound,
rebond,
recond,
recount,
redon,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. 1382, "to overflow," from O.Fr.
redonder "overflow, abound" (12c.), from L.
redundare "to overflow" (see redundant). Meaning "to flow or go back" (to a place or person) is from 1382; hence "to rebound" (c.1500), and "to contribute to" (the credit, honor, etc.), c.1500.
2. From Anglo-Norman redunder, Middle French redonder, and their source, Latin redundō, from red- + undō (“surge”), from unda (“a wave”). See: Anglo-Norman '
redunder', Latin '
redundō'.
Sample Sentences
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For every dram of hony therein found / A pound of gall doth over it redound […]. [1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:]
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The honour done to our religion ultimately redounds to God, the author of it. [a. 1729, John Rogers, A prudent cobduct recommended and enforced:]
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The fact that in one case the advance redounds to private advantage and in the other, theoretically, to the public good, does not alter the core assumptions common to both. [1970, Alvin Toffler, Future Shock, Bantam Books, page 448:]
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He [Sam Altman] came with a message that was both chilling and inspiring: without proper controls, advanced artificial intelligence might spell doom—but if you trust OpenAI to build it first, the technology will redound to the good of humanity. [2025 May 24, Richard Waters, “AI’s flawed frontman”, in FT Weekend (Books section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 10:]
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I did not omit even our Sports and Paſtimes, or any other Particular which I thought might redound to the Honour of my Country. [1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “Several Contrivances of the Author to Please the King and Queen. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume I, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part II (A Voyage to Brobdingnag), page 259:]
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One thing about the ‘John McCain-didn’t-sleep-with-a-lobbyist’ story redounds to the New York Times’ credit. [2008 March 2, Peter Preston, The Observer:]
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Runciman viewed many of the Crusades’ protagonists with sympathy, but he thought that the movement as a whole was destructive and did not redound to the honour of the faith. [2019, Αντώνιος Καλδέλλης [Anthony Kaldellis], Byzantium Unbound (Past Imperfect), Leeds: Arc Humanities Press, →ISBN, chapter 4: “Byzantium Was Not Medieval”, pages 87–88:]
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His infamous behaviour only redounded back upon him when he was caught.
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[…] that is, they concede the accuracy of certain classic attacks on communism, but in ways that redound on their opponents. [2022, China Miéville, chapter 3, in A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto, →OCLC:]
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The evil, soon driven back, redounded as a flood on those from whom it sprung. [1667, John Milton, “Book VII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:]