redouble

• POS: Noun, Verb (usu participle)
• HYPHEN: re=dou=ble

CIDE DICTIONARY

redouble, v. t. [Pref. re- + double: cf. F. redoubler. Cf. Reduplicate.].

 To double again or repeatedly; to increase by continued or repeated additions; to augment greatly; to multiply.  [1913 Webster]
"So they
Doubly redoubled strokes upon the foe."  [1913 Webster]

redouble, v. i. 

 To become greatly or repeatedly increased; to be multiplied; to be greatly augmented; as, the noise redoubles.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

redouble, v. & n.
--v.
1 tr. & intr. make or grow greater or more intense or numerous; intensify, increase.
2 intr. Bridge double again a bid already doubled by an opponent.
--n. Bridge the redoubling of a bid.

Etymology

F redoubler (as RE-, DOUBLE)

THESAURUS

redouble

accelerate, aggravate, beef up, blow up, come again, complicate, concentrate, condense, consolidate, copy, deepen, ditto, do a repeat, do again, do over, double, dupe, duplicate, echo, enhance, exacerbate, exaggerate, geminate, heat up, heighten, hop up, hot up, imitate, ingeminate, intensify, jazz up, key up, magnify, make complex, mount, multiply by two, parrot, plagiarize, quote, ramify, redo, reduplicate, reecho, regurgitate, reincarnate, reinforce, renew, repeat, replicate, reproduce, revive, rise, rouse, say again, sharpen, soup up, step up, strengthen, triple, twin, whet

ROGET THESAURUS

redouble

Increase

VB increase, augment, add to, enlarge, dilate, grow, wax, get ahead, gain strength, advance, run up, shoot up, rise, ascend, sprout, aggrandize, raise, exalt, deepen, heighten, strengthen, intensify, enhance, magnify, redouble, aggravate, exaggerate, exasperate, exacerbate, add fuel to the flame, oleum addere camino, superadd, spread.

Duplication

VB double, redouble, duplicate, reduplicate, geminate, repeat, renew.

Repetition

VB repeat, iterate, reiterate, reproduce, echo, reecho, drum, harp upon, battologize, hammer, redouble, recur, revert, return, reappear, recurse, renew, rehearse, do over again, say over again, ring the changes on, harp on the same string, din in the ear, drum in the ear, conjugate in all its moods tenses and inflexions, begin again, go over the same ground, go the same round, never hear the last of, resume, return to, recapitulate, reword.