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)
V. double, redouble, duplicate, reduplicate; geminate; repeat &c.
From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Roget, Peter Mark
Art gives intelligible ideas of the forms of nature, mechanism attempts to reduplicate their aspects.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 7 "Drama" to "Dublin" by Various
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
It was a still day, and the river reflected the sky and the rocks as they passed; even the cattle standing to drink in places knee deep in the water were reduplicated.
From Grey Town An Australian Story by Baldwin, Gerald
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)
Far and wide the thundering shout, Rolling among reduplicating rocks, Pealed o'er the hills, and up the mountain vales.
From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 3 by Coleridge, Ernest Hartley
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
Somewhere in this great, multitudinous mass of humanity he is sinning and sinning and reduplicating and extending the sin that you did.
From Addresses by the right reverend Phillips Brooks by Brooks, Phillips
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
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