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
Why may not thought's mission be to increase and elevate, rather than simply to imitate and reduplicate, existence?
From Meaning of Truth by William James
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 William A. (William Alfred) Quayle
Over he goes—and as it happens—as it happens—he has reduplicate fore-limbs, one pair being not unlike wings.
From The Wonderful Visit by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
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
It is a compound of xiu, the generic term for herb or plant, and tutul, a reduplicated form of tul, an abundance, an excess, as in the verb tutulancil, to overflow, etc.
From The Maya Chronicles Brinton's Library Of Aboriginal American Literature, Number 1 by Daniel Garrison Brinton
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 Ernest Hartley Coleridge
Another was for the making of jig-saw puzzles, a third for their elucidation, a fourth was for typewriting; and there was a reduplicating apparatus, and another table with materials for illuminating.
From The Eldest Son by Archibald Marshall
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 Phillips Brooks
Intelligence, he thought, is no miraculous, idle faculty, by which we mirror passively any or everything that happens to be true, reduplicating the real world to no purpose.
From Winds Of Doctrine Studies in Contemporary Opinion by George Santayana
It was an awesome picture, that ravenous and reduplicating mouth!
From Essays in Rebellion by Henry W. Nevinson
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