redound

Meanings

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.).
• To arise from or out of something.
• To roll back; to be sent or driven back.

Noun

• A coming back, as an effect or consequence; a return.

Origin

• From Anglo-Norman redunder, Middle French redonder, and their source, Latin rēdundō, from rē + undō, from unda.