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Definition: Redouble |
RedoubleVerb1. Double in magnitude, extent, or intensity; "The enemy redoubled their screaming on the radio". 2. Double again: "The noise doubled and redoubled". 3. Make twice as great or intense; "The screaming redoubled". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "redouble" was first used: sometime around 1443. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Duplication | Verb: double, redouble, duplicate, reduplicate; geminate; repeat; renew. |
Exertion | Work hard; rough it; put forth one's strength, put forth a strong arm; fall to work, bend the bow; buckle to, set one's shoulder to the wheel; (resolution); work like a horse, work like a cart horse, work like a galley slave, work like a coal heaver; labor day and night, work day and night; redouble one's efforts; do double duty; work double hours, work double tides; sit up, burn the candle at both ends; stick to; (persevere) a; work one's way, fight one's way; lay about one, hammer at. |
Increase | Aggrandize; raise, exalt; deepen, heighten; strengthen; intensify, enhance, magnify, redouble; aggravate, exaggerate; exasperate, exacerbate; add fuel to the flame, oleum addere camino, superadd; (add); spread; (disperse). |
Repetition | Verb: repeat, iterate, reiterate, reproduce, echo, reecho, drum, harp upon, battologize, hammer, redouble. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Redouble |
| English words defined with "redouble": To pay on. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "redouble": Abdomen. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Redouble" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. French (redoubles). |
| Play | Caption |
 | Building; gain; increasing; snowball; rise; swell; surge; surging; increase; build up; intensify; redouble; . |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Croatia | This analysis spurred the government to redouble its reform efforts and focus not only on legislation, but also on how regulations are applied in practice. (references) |
Human Rights | Cyprus | In December the leaders of both communities met to discuss the missing and agreed to redouble efforts to resolve the issue in cooperation with the CMP. Since June 1999 the Government of Cyprus has been conducting exhumations of gravesites in the south that may contain the remains of persons missing since 1974. By year's end, 115 Greek Cypriots had been identified through DNA testing. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | As we knock down the barriers to growth, we must redouble our efforts for freer and fairer trade. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Redouble" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 86.67% of the time. "Redouble" is used about 30 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 86.67% | 26 | 68,323 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 10% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (singular) | 3.33% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 30 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
redouble | 8 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "redouble"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | rritem (advance, become adult, climb, develop, grow up, move, run, shoot, thicken), zmadhoj (aggrandize, amplify, augment, enhance, enlarge, exaggerate, extend, heighten, increase, magnify, overcharge, overcolor, overcolour, overdo, overdraw, overstate, salt, stretch), shtoj së tepërmi, shtoj (add, add to, add up, advance, append, attach, augment, compound, count in, eke out, enclose, enhance, heighten, inclose, increase, intensify, intercalate, lend, multiply, propagate, put on, pyramid, raise, refill, subjoin, superinduce, supplement), përforcoj (add, aggrandize, confirm, engrain, establish, exalt, extend, follow up, fortify, gain a foothold, grow strong, grow stronger, increase, re-enforce, reinforce, strengthen, strut, truss, underpin), forcoj (back, bake, brace and bit, cement, consolidate, cultivate, harden, increase the strength, invigorate, potentiate, reinforce, strengthen, stretch, tighten, toughen), dyfishoj (double, duplicate, reduplicate). (various references) | |
Arabic | كرر (do again, duplicate, echo, exalt, hammer out, iterate, rectify, reduplicate, refine, rehearse, reiterate, renew, repeat, say again), تضاعف ثانية, تضاعف (expand, geminate, multiplication, multiplicity, multiply), ضاعف (compound, double, fold, geminate, heighten, multiply, reduplicate), بطن (abdomen, back, belly, gorge, interiorize, internalize, line, middle, pad, paunch, quilt, stomach, underlay, venter). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | удвоявам (double, duplicate, geminate, reduplicate), реконтра, реконтрирам, засилвам много, еча (growl, grumble, peal, resound, reverberate, roll), повтарям се (recur, repeat, repeat oneself). (various references) | |
Chinese | 倍 (Doubled, Doubling, Doubly, redoubled). (various references) | |
Czech | zdvojnásobit (double, reduplicate). (various references) | |
Farsi | افزودن (Add, Adjoin, Aggrandize, Amplify, Append, Augment, Eke, Enhance, Imp, Increase, Inset), دوچندان کردن , دوبرابرکردن (Reduplicate, Reduplication). (various references) | |
French | redoublons, redoublez, redoubler (reduplicate), redoublent, se redoubler. (various references) | |
German | verdoppeln (double, reduplicate, to double). (various references) | |
Greek | αναδιπλασιάζω (reduplicate), διπλασιάζω (double, geminate). (various references) | |
Hebrew | ל"כפיל ש ית, ל"'"יל (amplify, augment, enhance, enlarge, expand, increase, magnify, maximize). (various references) | |
Hungarian | ráduplázás (right-and-left), növel (enhance, extend, increase, raise, to aggravate, to augment, to darken counsel, to elevate, to enhance, to enlarge, to exacerbate, to extend, to gear up, to heighten, to improve, to redouble, to send up, to step up), megkettõz (double, reduplicate), különáll. (various references) | |
Indonesian | melipatduakan. (various references) | |
Italian | raddoppiarsi, raddoppiare (double, reduplicate), intensificarsi (intensify), duplicare (double, duplicate, reduplicate). (various references) | |
Manx | aavooadaghey (increase, magnify), aaghoobley. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | edoubleray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | redobrar (refold), intensificar (deepen, double, exalt, intensify, swell), ecoar (echo, reverberate), aumentar (accrete, accrue, add, aggrandize, amplify, augment, develop, double, eke, enhance, enlarge, expand, explode, get about, go up, grow, heighten, increase, inflate, intensify, lengthen, magnify, mark up, raise, redound, rise, steepen, stiffen, thicken, up, wax). (various references) | |
Romanian | se intensifica (intensify), se înteţi, intensifica (enhance, exaggerate, exalt, heighten, increase, intensify, renew, sharpen, swell), dubla (double, dub, duplicate, geminate, reduplicate, understudy), înteţi (inflame), înmulţi (augment, multiply, propagate), îndoi (bend, bow, cockle, crease, crook, crouch, curve, dog's-ear, double, draw, ear-mark, fold, hunch, inflect, ply, stoop, tuck in). (various references) | |
Russian | усиливать (amplify, deepen, escalate, exasperate, give an edge, increase, intensify, reenforce, reinforce, strengthen, turn up). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | udvostručiti (double, dualize), pojačati (amplify, boost, heighten, intensify, reinforce, soup, turn up). (various references) | |
Spanish | redoblar (double, renew, rumble). (various references) | |
Swedish | fördubblas (double), fördubbla (double, duplicate, reduplicate), ökas (augment, grow, heighten, intensify), öka (add to, augment, compound, enhance, extend, gain, grow, heighten, increase, inflame, inflate, intensify, put on, smarten, supplement). (various references) | |
Turkish | yeniden katlamak, iki katına çıkmak (double), iki katına çıkarmak. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | скласти учетверо, вдруге подвоювати. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | congeminansque. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | re-. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "redouble": redoubled, redoubles. (additional references) | |
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"Redouble" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: recouple. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "redouble" (pronounced rēdu"bul) |
| 5 | -d u" b u l | double. |
| 4 | -u" b u l | bubble, stubble, rubble, trouble. |
| 3 | -b u l | incurable, indefatigable, indefensible, indefinable, indelible, indescribable, indestructible, indispensable, indisputable, indistinguishable, indivisible, indomitable, inedible, ineffable, ineligible, inequitable, inescapable, inevitable, inexcusable, inexhaustible, inexorable, inexplicable, infallible, infeasible, inflammable, inflatable, acceptable, accessible, able, abominable, accountable, achievable, actionable, adaptable, addressable, adjustable, admirable, admissible, adoptable, adorable, advisable, affable, affordable, agreeable, allowable, amble, amenable, amendable, amiable, amicable, analyzable, answerable, appealable, applicable, appreciable, approachable, approvable, arable, arguable, assemble, attainable, attributable, audible, available, avoidable, babble, Babel, bankable, bauble, bearable, believable, bible, billable, biodegradable, bramble, breakable, buildable, Bumble, burnable, cable, callable, cannibal, capable, changeable, chargeable, charitable, classifiable, cobble, coble, collapsible, collectible, Combinable, comfortable, commendable, communicable, comparable, compatible, compensable, comprehensible, conceivable, confirmable, considerable, constable, consumable, contemptible, contestable, controllable, convertible, copyrightable, corbel, countable, credible, creditable, crucible, crumble, culpable, curable, cymbal, dabble, debatable, deductible, defensible, definable, degradable, delectable, deliverable, demonstrable, dependable, deplorable, deployable, depreciable, describable, desirable, despicable, detachable, detectable, determinable, developable, Dibble, digestible, disable, disagreeable, disassemble, discernible, discountable, discoverable, dishonorable, dispensable, disposable, disreputable, dissemble, distinguishable, divisible, doable, Drabble, dribble, drinkable, drivable, durable, eatable, edible, electable, eligible, Embraceable, employable, enable, enfeeble, enforceable, enjoyable, ennoble, ensemble, enviable, equable, equitable, erasable, erodible, estimable, exchangeable, excitable, excludable, excusable, execrable, exercisable, expandable, expendable, explainable, exportable, extendable, extendible, fable, fallible, fashionable, fathomable, favorable, feasible, feeble, fissionable, fixable, flammable, flexible, foible, forcible, foreseeable, forfeitable, forgettable, forgivable, formidable, fumble, fungible, fusible, gable, gamble, Garble, global, gobble, Gribble, grumble, gullible, habitable, hardscrabble, harvestable, herbal, heritable, hobble, hon, honorable, horrible, hospitable, humble, identifiable, ignoble, illegible, imaginable, imitable, immeasurable, immiscible, immobile, immovable, immutable, impassable, impeachable, impeccable, impenetrable, imperceptible, impermissible, implacable, implantable, implausible, imponderable, impossible, impracticable, impregnable, impressionable, improbable, inaccessible, inadmissible, inadvisable, inalienable, inapplicable, inaudible, incalculable, incapable, incomparable, incompatible, incomprehensible, incompressible, inconceivable, incontrovertible, incorrigible, incredible, soluble, solvable, spendable, squabble, Stabile, stable, stumble, submersible, suggestible, suitable, supportable, survivable, susceptible, sustainable, syllable, symbol, table, talkable, tangible, taxable, teachable, tenable, terrible, inflexible, inheritable, inhospitable, inimitable, injectable, innumerable, inoperable, insatiable, inscrutable, inseparable, insoluble, insufferable, insupportable, insurmountable, intangible, intelligible, interchangeable, interminable, interruptible, intertribal, intolerable, intractable, invaluable, investable, invincible, inviolable, invisible, invulnerable, irascible, irreconcilable, irrefutable, irremediable, irreparable, irreplaceable, irrepressible, irresistible, irresponsible, irreversible, irrevocable, irritable, issuable, jumble, justifiable, kibble, knowledgeable, label, lamentable, laudable, laughable, leasable, legible, liable, libel, likable, likeable, livable, lovable, malleable, manageable, mandible, maneuverable, marble, marketable, measurable, memorable, microwavable, miscible, miserable, mislabel, mobile, moldable, movable, mumble, navigable, negligible, negotiable, nibble, nimble, noble, noncallable, nonconvertible, nondeductible, nondurable, nonrefundable, nonrenewable, nontaxable, nontransferable, nonverbal, notable, noticeable, objectionable, observable, obtainable, operable, ostensible, palatable, palpable, parable, passable, patentable, payable, peaceable, pebble, perceptible, perishable, permeable, permissible, personable, persuadable, pitiable, plausible, pleasurable, pliable, portable, possible, potable, practicable, preamble, predictable, preferable, presentable, preventable, printable, probable, profitable, programmable, prosecutable, provable, psychobabble, punishable, questionable, quibble, quotable, rabble, ramble, reachable, readable, realizable, reasonable, reassemble, rebel, receivable, rechargeable, recognizable, recordable, recoverable, recyclable, redeemable, redoubtable, reducible, refundable, regrettable, relabel, reliable, remarkable, removable, renewable, rentable, repairable, repayable, repeatable, replaceable, reportable, reprehensible, reputable, resealable, resemble, resettable, respectable, responsible, retractable, returnable, reusable, reversible, revocable, ridable, Roble, rouble, roundtable, Ruble, rumble, sable, salable, saleable, salvageable, Scrabble, scramble, scribble, seasonable, sensible, serviceable, shamble, Sibyl, sizable, sizeable, sociable, thimble, timetable, tolerable, traceable, tractable, tradable, tradeable, trainable, transferable, transferrable, transmittable, transportable, treatable, treble, tremble, tribal, tubal, tumble, tunable, turntable, typeable, umbel, unable, unacceptable, unaccountable, unaffordable, unalienable, unalterable, unanswerable, unassailable, unattainable, unavailable, unavoidable, unbearable, unbeatable, unbelievable, unbuildable, uncollectible, uncomfortable, unconscionable, uncontrollable, undeniable, understandable, undesirable, undetectable, unelectable, unemployable, unenforceable, unenviable, unexplainable, unfashionable, unfathomable, unfavorable, unfeasible, unflappable, unforeseeable, unforgettable, unforgivable, ungovernable, unimaginable, unimpeachable, uninhabitable, uninsurable, unintelligible, unjustifiable, unknowable, unlivable, unmanageable, unmentionable, unmistakable, unobtainable, unpalatable, unpredictable, unprintable, unprofitable, unquestionable, unreachable, unreadable, unreasonable, unrecognizable, unreliable, unremarkable, unsalable, unscramble, unserviceable, unshakable, unsinkable, unsolvable, unspeakable, unstable, unstoppable, unsuitable, unsupportable, unsustainable, untenable, unthinkable, untouchable, untraceable, unusable, unverifiable, unwinnable, unworkable, usable, valuable, variable, vegetable, venerable, verbal, verifiable, veritable, viable, visible, voluble, vulnerable, wamble, washable, wearable, winnable, wobble, workable. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-d-e-e-l-o-r-u" | |
-1 letter: boulder, doubler, urodele. | |
-2 letters: bolder, bordel, burled, double, dueler, eluder, louder, loured, rouble. | |
-3 letters: bedel, bleed, blued, bluer, bored, boule, brede, breed, elder, elude, erode, lobed, lubed, lured, older, orbed, rebel, redub, robed, roble, ruble, ruled, uredo. | |
-4 letters: bedu, beer, bled, blue, blur, bode, bold, bole, bore, bred, bree, burd, burl, deer, dele, dere. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-d-e-e-l-o-r-u" | |
+1 letter: bouldered, redoubled, redoubles. | |
+2 letters: belaboured, beliquored, furbelowed. | |
+3 letters: beglamoured, redoubtable. | |
+4 letters: boulevardier, cloudberries, doubleheader, reproducible. | |
+5 letters: boulevardiers, doubleheaders, doublespeaker, nonrefundable, reproducibles, unbowdlerized. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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