different between redound vs remound

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: r?mound?, IPA^(key): /???ma?nd/
• Rhymes: -a?nd

Etymology 1

A strong conjugation preterite formed on the pattern of find ? found.

Verb

remound

1. (nonstandard, rare nonce word) simple past tense and past participle of remind
   • 1830, Filaret, “On the Tenses of Greek Verbs” in The Gentleman’s Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, ed. Sylvanus Urban, volume 100, part 2, page 125

     [W]hat should we now think of the grammar which should run thus: 1. pret. I fighted, thou fightedst, &c. 2d pret. I fought, &c. And again, 1st pret. I reminded, &c. 2d pret. I remound?

   • 1918, The Judge (Judge Publishing Company), volume 75, page unknown

     I find — that is to say, I’ve found —
     That when one knows “sink, sank and sunken,”
     He soon is strenuously remound
     He mustn’t say “blink, blank and blunken.”

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:remound.

Etymology 2

re- +? mound

Verb

remound (third-person singular simple present remounds, present participle remounding, simple past and past participle remounded)

1. Restore the mound or mounds of (especially, a grave or graves).
   • 1916, Economic Entomology: Pamphlets, volume 109, page 1,130

     In some soils, mounds made earlier wash down, thus making it necessary to remound in the fall.

   • 1995, L. R. Goldman, “The Depths of Deception: Cultural Schemas of Illusion in Huli”, chapter 3 in Papuan borderlands: Huli, Duna, and Ipili perspectives on the Papua New Guinea Highlands, ed. Aletta Biersack, page 275

     [W]omen may continue to remound old gardens for ten years or more.

   • 2006, William Gay, Twilight (MacAdam/Cage Pub.; ?ISBN, 9781596920583), page 7

     He drove the spade into the earth mounded atop the grave and leaning his weight into the work began to remound the earth in a pile next the grave.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:remound.
2. (chiefly in food preparation) Reform into a mound.
   • 1983, William Shurtleff [aut.] and Akiko Aoyagi [illust.], The Book of Miso: Savory, High-protein Seasoning (2nd ed.; Ten Speed Press; ?ISBN, 9780898150971), page 181

     Remound koji into oval volcano shape, re-cover tray with lid set slightly ajar, and re-cover incubation box with blankets.

   • 1991, Fred Bridge and Jean F. Tibbetts, The Well-Tooled Kitchen (Morrow), page 97

     Roll a rolling pin 1 to 2 times over the mixture to flatten the butter particles, gather into a mound again, then use the pastry blender to cut until powdery with some oatmeal-shaped flakes throughout; remound.

   • 1995, Jesse Ziff Cool, Onions: A Country Garden Cookbook (Collins Publishers San Francisco; ?ISBN, 9780002554527), page 1

     As the plant grows, move the tube upward and remound the dirt to cover the base and the blanched leaves.

3. (rosiculture, rare) Bolster with a restored mound.
   • 1999, Thomas Cairns, Ortho’s All About Roses (Meredith Books; ?ISBN, 9780897214285), page 28

     Watch for wrinkling on the canes — the first sign of dehydration. If this occurs, recut the canes below the wrinkling, remound the plant, and water well.

Anagrams

• Dunmore, mourned