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Definition of Reduplicate
1. Verb. Form by reduplication. "The morpheme can be reduplicated to emphasize the meaning of the word"
Category relationships: Linguistics
Generic synonyms: Double, Duplicate, Repeat, Replicate
2. Verb. Make or do or perform again. "He could never replicate his brilliant performance of the magic trick"
Specialized synonyms: Copy, Replicate, Recapitulate, Geminate
Generic synonyms: Reproduce
Derivative terms: Double, Repeat, Repeater, Repeater, Repeating, Repetition, Repetitive, Replica, Replication
Definition of Reduplicate
1. a. Double; doubled; reduplicative; repeated.
2. v. t. To redouble; to multiply; to repeat.
Definition of Reduplicate
1. Adjective. doubled ¹
2. Verb. (linguistics) To repeat a word or section of a word in order to form a new word or phrase, possibly with modification of one of the repetitions. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Reduplicate
1. duplicate [v -CATED, -CATING, -CATES] - See also: duplicate
Medical Definition of Reduplicate
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1. Double; doubled; reduplicative; repeated.
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Reduplicate
Literary usage of Reduplicate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Greek Grammar for Schools and Colleges by Herbert Weir Smyth (1916)
"Some verbs whose themes begin with a, e, or o, followed by a single consonant,
reduplicate by repeating the initial vowel and the consonant and by ..."
2. A Comparative Grammar of the Sanskrit, Zend, Greek, Latin, Lithuanian by Franz Bopp (1862)
"arisen directly from the reduplicate root, by prefixing the augment, and descends
from a period when the active was not as yet ..."
3. A Comparative Grammar of the Sanscrit, Zend, Greek, Latin, Lithuanian by Franz Bopp, Edward Backhouse Eastwick, Horace Hayman Wilson (1845)
"directly from the reduplicate root, by prefixing the augment, and descends from
a period when the active was not as yet ..."
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