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Definition of Redouble
1. Verb. Double in magnitude, extent, or intensity. "The enemy redoubled their screaming on the radio"
2. Verb. Double again. "The noise doubled and redoubled"
3. Verb. Make twice as great or intense. "The screaming redoubled"
Definition of Redouble
1. v. t. To double again or repeatedly; to increase by continued or repeated additions; to augment greatly; to multiply.
2. v. i. To become greatly or repeatedly increased; to be multiplied; to be greatly augmented; as, the noise redoubles.
Definition of Redouble
1. Verb. (transitive) To double, especially to double again; to increase considerably; to multiply; to intensify. ¹
2. Verb. (bridge backgammon) To double an opponent's doubling bid. ¹
3. Verb. (intransitive) To become twice as big. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Redouble
1. to double [v -BLED, -BLING, -BLES] - See also: double
Lexicographical Neighbors of Redouble
Literary usage of Redouble
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Art of Worldly Wisdom by Baltasar Gracián y Morales, Joseph Jacobs (1892)
"if you have bad luck, keep retired so as not to redouble the influence of your
unlucky star. xxxvii Keep a ..."
2. History of the Reformation of the Sixteenth Century by Jean Henri Merle d'Aubigné (1848)
"... Reformers—Alliance of Magdeburg—The Catholics redouble their Exertions—The
Emperor's Marriage—Threatening Letters—The two Parties. AT the first glance, ..."
3. On Translating Homer: Three Lectures Given at Oxford by Matthew Arnold (1861)
"So some man will say; and then thy grief wiH redouble At thy want of a man like
me, to save thee from bondage. But let me be dead, and the earth be mounded ..."
4. The African Repository by American Colonization Society (1847)
"Let all the friends of colonization redouble their diligence and their liberality
in this work. The circumstances demand it. • lice tic! ..."
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