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REDUPLICATE

Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

 Dictionary entry overview: What does reduplicate mean? 

REDUPLICATE (verb)
  The verb REDUPLICATE has 2 senses:

1. form by reduplicationplay

2. make or do or perform againplay

  Familiarity information: REDUPLICATE used as a verb is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


REDUPLICATE (verb)

 Conjugation: 
Present simple: I / you / we / they reduplicate  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it reduplicates  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past simple: reduplicated  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past participle: reduplicated  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
-ing form: reduplicating  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation


Sense 1

Meaning:

Form by reduplication

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Synonyms:

geminate; reduplicate

Context example:

The morpheme can be reduplicated to emphasize the meaning of the word

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

double; duplicate; reduplicate; repeat; replicate (make or do or perform again)

Domain category:

linguistics (the scientific study of language)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something


Sense 2

Meaning:

Make or do or perform again

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Synonyms:

double; duplicate; reduplicate; repeat; replicate

Context example:

He could never replicate his brilliant performance of the magic trick

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

reproduce (make a copy or equivalent of)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "reduplicate"):

copy; replicate (reproduce or make an exact copy of)

recapitulate (repeat stages of evolutionary development during the embryonic phase of life)

geminate; reduplicate (form by reduplication)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something


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