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REDOUBLED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does redoubled mean?
• REDOUBLED (adjective)
The adjective REDOUBLED has 1 sense:
1. become much greater in intensity or size or amount
Familiarity information: REDOUBLED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Become much greater in intensity or size or amount
Context example:
despite our redoubled efforts
Similar:
increased (made greater in size or amount or degree)
Context examples
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)
He suddenly redoubled his efforts, and then as suddenly grew calm.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
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)
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)
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