Found 2 items, similar to redound.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: redound redound v 1: be excessive in quantity 2: be deflected; “His actions redound on his parents” 3: be added; “Everything he does redounds to himself” 4: have an effect for good or ill; “Her efforts will redound to the general good”
English → English (gcide) Definition: Redound Redound \Re*dound"\ (r?*dound"), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Redounded; p. pr. & vb. n. Redounding.] [F. redonder, L. redundare; pref. red-, re-, re- + undare to rise in waves or surges, fr. unda a wave. See Undulate, and cf. Redundant.] 1. To roll back, as a wave or flood; to be sent or driven back; to flow back, as a consequence or effect; to conduce; to contribute; to result. [1913 Webster] The evil, soon Driven back, redounded as a flood on those From whom it sprung. --Milton. [1913 Webster] The honor done to our religion ultimately redounds to God, the author of it. --Rogers. [1913 Webster] both . . . will devour great quantities of paper, there will no small use redound from them to that manufacture. --Addison. [1913 Webster] 2. To be in excess; to remain over and above; to be redundant; to overflow. [1913 Webster] For every dram of honey therein found, A pound of gall doth over it redound. --Spenser. [1913 Webster] Redound \Re*dound"\, n. 1. The coming back, as of consequence or effect; result; return; requital. [1913 Webster] We give you welcome; not without redound Of use and glory to yourselves ye come. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster] 2. Rebound; reverberation. [R.] --Codrington. [1913 Webster]