reduplicate
Americanverb (used with object)
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to double; repeat.
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Grammar. to form (a derivative or inflected form) by doubling a specified syllable or other portion of the primitive, sometimes with fixed modifications, as in Greek léloipa “I have left,” leípo “I leave.”
verb (used without object)
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to become doubled.
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Grammar. to become reduplicated.
adjective
verb
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to make or become double; repeat
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to repeat (a sound or syllable) in a word or (of a sound or syllable) to be repeated, esp in forming inflections in certain languages
adjective
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doubled or repeated
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(of petals or sepals) having the margins curving outwards
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of reduplicate
1560–70; < Late Latin reduplicātus (past participle of reduplicāre ), equivalent to Latin re- re- + duplic ( āre ) to double + -ātus -ate 1 ( see duplicate)
Example Sentences
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Sir Hubert Wilkins, bearded Arctic explorer, offered to reduplicate a stunt he described to an Idaho Falls lecture audience.
From Time Magazine Archive
Lefty gave us his magnificently written poem which he could never reduplicate because he had lost his hand.
From "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep
In the present English there is no undoubted perfect or reduplicate form.
From A Handbook of the English Language by Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)
There are good grounds for believing that in the word did we have a single instance of the old reduplicate pr�terite.
From A Handbook of the English Language by Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)
There should be no psychic activity in sleep; if the psyche stirs, then just to that extent have we failed to reduplicate the foetal condition; remainders of psychic activity could not be completely avoided.
From A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Freud, Sigmund
He retained them in the multipanel murals, which were composed of three to five individual prints, with figures at the margins sliced and reduplicated where the prints overlapped.
From New York Times ● Feb. 2, 2023
In this show’s 1912 collage of a face by Picasso, a reduplicated nose and ear seem to cast doubt on the entire project of orderly representation.
From New York Times ● Aug. 11, 2022
They may be the images of a string of lights at a distance, or they may be reduplicated images of a single very bright light.
From Time Magazine Archive
However, the singing by Ronnie McDowell is gilt-edge counterfeit, Elvis' sound carefully shaped and reduplicated by Felton Jarvis, Presley's own producer at RCA.
From Time Magazine Archive
By refusing what she asked, he reduplicated her asking; this is sweet to him and profitable to her.
From The Parables of Our Lord by Arnot, William
He was also guilty of reduplicating the first syllables of words, producing such expressions as p�p�tiller, sousouflantes.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 7 "Drama" to "Dublin" by Various
The Octave is the starting-point of a new series reduplicating the starting-point of the previous series at a different level, just as does the octave note in music.
From The Doré Lectures being Sunday addresses at the Doré Gallery, London, given in connection with the Higher Thought Centre by Troward, T. (Thomas)
I sometimes wonder whether those who are forgiven, yet have left evil behind them on earth, are purified by being shown their own errors reduplicating with time and numbers.’
From Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster by Yonge, Charlotte Mary
Ah! if science had only the means of conducting and reduplicating sounds, as it does the rays of light, what carols of happiness would then have entranced my ears!
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 03, January, 1858 by Various
So with reduplicating speech she conveyed intelligence to his mind.
From King John of Jingalo The Story of a Monarch in Difficulties by Housman, Laurence
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