REDOUBLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does redouble mean? 

• REDOUBLE (verb)
  The verb REDOUBLE has 3 senses:

1. double in magnitude, extent, or intensity

2. double again

3. make twice as great or intense

  Familiarity information: REDOUBLE used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REDOUBLE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they redouble    ... he / she / it redoubles   
Past simple: redoubled   
Past participle: redoubled   
-ing form: redoubling   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Double in magnitude, extent, or intensity

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

The enemy redoubled their screaming on the radio

Hypernyms (to "redouble" is one way to...):

escalate; intensify; step up (increase in extent or intensity)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Double again

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

The noise doubled and redoubled

Hypernyms (to "redouble" is one way to...):

double; duplicate (increase twofold)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Sense 3

Meaning:

Make twice as great or intense

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

The screaming redoubled

Hypernyms (to "redouble" is one way to...):

deepen; intensify (become more intense)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

 Context examples 

He suddenly redoubled his efforts, and then as suddenly grew calm.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Whenever I fell into a thoughtful state, this subject was sure to present itself, and all my uneasiness was sure to be redoubled.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Wondji said control efforts, such as eliminating mosquito larvae that inhabit standing pools of water, can also be redoubled.

(Malaria-carrying Mosquitoes Becoming Resistant to Bed Nets in Southern Africa, VOA)

Even redoubling your efforts didn’t help, and doing so only frustrated you even more.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

For the last little while I had even lost, but now redoubling my efforts, I began once more to overhaul the chase.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Strangely enough those pursued did not seem to realise, or at least to care, that they were pursued; they seemed, however, to hasten with redoubled speed as the sun dropped lower and lower on the mountain tops.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)