different between redound vs refound

English

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman redunder, Middle French redonder, and their source, Latin r?dund?, from r? + und? (“surge”), from unda (“a wave”).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /???da?nd/, /???da?nd/
• Rhymes: -a?nd

Verb

redound (third-person singular simple present redounds, present participle redounding, simple past and past participle redounded)

1. (obsolete, intransitive) To swell up (of water, waves etc.); to overflow, to surge (of bodily fluids). [14th-19th c.]
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.10:

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

2. (intransitive) To contribute to an advantage or disadvantage for someone or something. [from 15th c.]
   • a. 1729, John Rogers, A prudent cobduct recommended and enforced

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

   • 1970, Alvin Toffler, Future Shock, Bantam Books, p. 448:

     The fact that in one case the advance redounds to private advantage and in the other, theoretically, to the public good, does not alter the core assumptions common to both.

3. (intransitive) To contribute to the honour, shame etc. of a person or organisation. [from 15th c.]
   • 2008, Peter Preston, The Observer, 2 Mar 2008:

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

4. (intransitive) To reverberate, to echo. [from 15th c.]
5. (transitive) To reflect (honour, shame etc.) to or onto someone. [from 15th c.]
6. (intransitive) To attach, come back, accrue to someone; to reflect back on or upon someone (of honour, shame etc.). [from 16th c.]

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

7. (intransitive) To arise from or out of something. [from 16th c.]
8. (intransitive, of a wave, flood, etc.) To roll back; to be sent or driven back.

Related terms

• redundance
• redundancy
• redundant

Translations

Noun

redound (plural redounds)

1. A coming back, as an effect or consequence; a return.

Anagrams

• rounded, underdo

English

Etymology 1

Inflected form

Verb

refound

1. simple past tense and past participle of refind

Etymology 2

re- +? found

Verb

refound (third-person singular simple present refounds, present participle refounding, simple past and past participle refounded)

1. (transitive) To found again; to reestablish.
2. (transitive) To found or cast anew.
   • T. Warton

     Ancient bells refounded.

Translations

Anagrams

• Neudorf, fonduer, founder