rewind

[ree-wahynd, ree-wahynd]

verb (used with or without object)

rewound , rewinded, rewinding .

1. to wind again.

2. to wind back to or toward the beginning; reverse.

noun

1. an act or instance of rewinding.

2. Recording.

   1. a function of an audio or video recorder or player, as a cassette deck or DVR, that returns the audio or video incrementally to an earlier point.

   2. the button or other control that activates this reversing function.

3. a camera control or mechanism used to wind film back into a film cassette.

rewind

verb

1. (tr) to wind back, esp a film or tape onto the original reel

noun

1. something rewound

2. the act of rewinding

Other Word Forms

• rewinder noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of rewind¹

First recorded in 1710–20; re- + wind ²

Example Sentences

We cannot rewind or unwind the AI revolution.

From Salon

As I push the minute hand back and forth, it feels like I am rewinding time, back to the early 1960s when the portrait was made, then fast-forwarding it to now.

From Los Angeles Times

The uninfected Brits have had to rewind their society back a millennium.

From Los Angeles Times

In Chuck years, the film starts when he’s 39 and in his final hours of fading away from brain cancer, rewinds to nine months earlier and then leaps back to his boyhood.

From Los Angeles Times

Few who survive the teen years would want to relive them except, perhaps, if it were possible to rewind into one of Blume’s stories.

From Salon

Related Words

• back up 
• reverse 
• undo