re·dound /rɪˈdaʊnd/
(vi.)增加,貢獻,有助于,回報
Re·dound v. i. [imp. & p. p. Redounded; p. pr. & vb. n. Redounding.]
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.
The evil, soon
Driven back, redounded as a flood on those
From whom it sprung. --Milton.
The honor done to our religion ultimately redounds to God, the author of it. --Rogers.
both . . . will devour great quantities of paper, there will no small use redound from them to that manufacture. --Addison.
2. To be in excess; to remain over and above; to be redundant; to overflow.
For every dram of honey therein found,
A pound of gall doth over it redound. --Spenser.
Re·dound, n.
1. The coming back, as of consequence or effect; result; return; requital.
We give you welcome; not without redound
Of use and glory to yourselves ye come. --Tennyson.
2. Rebound; reverberation. [R.]
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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"