English Dictionary

redound

/ɹɪˈdaʊnd/

verb

(obsolete, intransitive) To swell up (of water, waves etc.); to overflow, to surge (of bodily fluids). / (intransitive) To contribute to an advantage or disadvantage for someone or something.

His hard work will redound to his success.

意味（1）

(obsolete, intransitive) To swell up (of water, waves etc.); to overflow, to surge (of bodily fluids).

For every dram of hony therein found / A pound of gall doth over it redound […].

意味（2）

(intransitive) To contribute to an advantage or disadvantage for someone or something.

The honour done to our religion ultimately redounds to God, the author of it.

意味（3）

(intransitive) To contribute to the honour, shame etc. of a person or organisation.

One thing about the 'John McCain-didn't-sleep-with-a-lobbyist' story redounds to the New York Times' credit.

意味（4）

(intransitive) To reverberate, to echo.

意味（5）

(transitive) To reflect (honour, shame etc.) to or onto someone.

意味（6）

(intransitive) To attach, come back, accrue to someone; to reflect back on or upon someone (of honour, shame etc.).

His infamous behaviour only redounded back upon him when he was caught.

意味（7）

(intransitive) To arise from or out of something.

意味（8）

(intransitive, of a wave, flood, etc.) To roll back; to be sent or driven back.

The evil, soon driven back, redounded as a flood on those from whom it sprung.