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.