[
US
/ɹiˈdaʊnd/
]
VERB
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have an effect for good or ill
Her efforts will redound to the general good -
contribute
Everything redounded to his glory -
return or recoil
Fame redounds to the heroes
How To Use redound In A Sentence
- I've learned something that may redound greatly to his advantage. IRONCROWN MOON: PART TWO OF THE BOREAL MOON TALE
- Your practical jokes will redound on you / your own head one day.
- The success in the Middle East redounds to his benefit.
- That bailout, and the guarantee from Dublin that preceded it, redounded chiefly to the benefit of the banks' foreign creditors, who represented some three-quarters of the money lent to the banks. Fine Gael and the Banks
- This work will redound to his credit.
- But the ads redounded to the benefit of the Bloc instead, both because there was no real prospect of major NDP victories in Quebec and because Quebec voters tend to be, frankly speaking, very tribal. North America's Other Election
- Such teamwork will only redound to the physician's benefit.
- The success in the Middle East redounds to his benefit.
- At length he calls Joseph N+Z+J+R+ (nazir) among his brethren, either because he was their crown, on account of the common glory which redounds from him to them all, or because, on account of the dignity by which he excels, he was separated from them all. Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2
- But journalists who hurl the most appalling abuse at officials of the government are not well placed to act pious when that abuse redounds upon their sources.