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
V. double, redouble, duplicate, reduplicate; geminate; repeat &c.
From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Roget, Peter Mark
He has written a great history of the United States before the Constitution, so that no author has felt called on or equipped to reduplicate his task in the same detail and manner.
From A Hero and Some Other Folks by Quayle, William A. (William Alfred)
Did from do is also considered to be a reduplicate form.
From A Handbook of the English Language by Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)
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
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
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
The word for soul is anganga, which is a reduplicated form of anga, a verb meaning "to go" or "to come."
From The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead Vol. II by Frazer, James George, Sir
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
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
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
No amount of after manipulation could condone so vicious a slaughter of space and line opportunities which the background, with its reduplicating edge, accomplishes.
From Pictorial Composition and the Critical Judgment of Pictures by Poore, Henry Rankin
It was an awesome picture, that ravenous and reduplicating mouth!
From Essays in Rebellion by Nevinson, Henry W.
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