Redouble

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Redouble \Re*dou"ble\ (r?*d?b"'l), v. t. [Pref. re- + double:
     cf. F. redoubler. Cf. {Reduplicate}.]
     To double again or repeatedly; to increase by continued or
     repeated additions; to augment greatly; to multiply.
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           So they
           Doubly redoubled strokes upon the foe.   --Shak.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Redouble \Re*dou"ble\, v. i.
     To become greatly or repeatedly increased; to be multiplied;
     to be greatly augmented; as, the noise redoubles.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  redouble
       v 1: 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"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  61 Moby Thesaurus words for "redouble":
     accelerate, aggravate, beef up, blow up, come again, complicate,
     concentrate, condense, consolidate, copy, deepen, ditto,
     do a repeat, do again, do over, double, dupe, duplicate, echo,
     enhance, exacerbate, exaggerate, geminate, heat up, heighten,
     hop up, hot up, imitate, ingeminate, intensify, jazz up, key up,
     magnify, make complex, mount, multiply by two, parrot, plagiarize,
     quote, ramify, redo, reduplicate, reecho, regurgitate, reincarnate,
     reinforce, renew, repeat, replicate, reproduce, revive, rise,
     rouse, say again, sharpen, soup up, step up, strengthen, triple,
     twin, whet