Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To bound or spring back; fly back from force of impact, as an elastic or free-moving body striking against a solid substance.
- To bound or bounce again; repeat a bound or spring; make repeated bounds or springs.
- To fall back; recoil, as to a starting-point or a former state; return as with a spring.
- To send sounds back and forth; reverberate; resound; reëcho.
- Synonyms Rebound, Reverberate, Recoil. Rebound and reverberate apply to that which strikes an unyielding object and bounds back or away; recoil applies to that which springs back from a position of rest, as a cannon or rifle when discharged, or a man and a rattlesnake when they discover their proximity to each other. Reverberate, by onomatopœia, applies chiefly to heavy sounds, but has other special uses (see the word); it has no figurative extension. Recoil is most freely used in figure: as, a man's treachery recoils upon himself; in sudden fright the blood recoils upon the heart.
- To throw or drive back, as sound; make an echo or reverberation of; repeat as an echo or echoes.
- noun The act of flying back on collision with another body; a bounding back or in reverse; resilience; recoil; reëcho; reverberation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of rebounding; resilience.
- noun recovery, as from sickness, psychological shock, or disappointment.
- transitive verb To send back; to reverberate.
- intransitive verb To spring back; to start back; to be sent back or reverberated by elastic force on collision with another body.
- intransitive verb rare To give back an echo.
- intransitive verb To bound again or repeatedly, as a horse.
- intransitive verb to recover, as from sickness, psychological shock, or disappointment.
- intransitive verb (Firearms) one in which the hammer rebounds to half cock after striking the cap or primer.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
recoil of an object bouncing off another. - noun A
return tohealth or well-being; arecovery . - noun An effort to recover from a setback.
- noun A romantic partner with whom one begins a relationship (or the relationship one begins) for the sake of
getting over a previous, recently-ended romantic relationship. - noun sports The
strike of the ball after it has bounced off a defending player, thecrossbar orgoalpost . - noun basketball An instance of catching the ball after it has hit the rim or backboard without a basket being scored, generally credited to a particular player.
- verb To
bound or springback from a force. - verb figuratively To jump up or get back up again.
- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
rebind .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb return to a former condition
- noun the act of securing possession of the rebounding basketball after a missed shot
- verb spring back; spring away from an impact
- noun a movement back from an impact
- noun a reaction to a crisis or setback or frustration
Etymologies
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Examples
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Banking stocks, which have been hard-hit recently, staged a mini-rebound though I use the word rebound with caution.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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Banking stocks, which have been hard-hit recently, staged a mini-rebound though I use the word rebound with caution.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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It has since climbed back a bit, but the relatively strong growth of the past decade should be seen mainly as a rebound from the 1990s trough.
Matthew Yglesias » Linda Chavez Sees Social Democracy Around the Corner 2009
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It may also be a natural rebound from a pretty bad fourth quarter, when broadband net adds skidded at most ISPs.
Despite Downturn, Comcast Adds Broadband Subscribers In Q1 2009 2009
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That's a rebound from the dismal days of 2008 and 2009.
Ford Electrifies The Focus Jim Motavalli 2010
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True, the politics are really, really, really simple: If the rebound is slower than Rove just predicted, then he can say: Ha! Obama screwed everything up by passing the stimulus plan!
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It may also be a natural rebound from a pretty bad fourth quarter, when [...]
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"New short-term oversold extremes mean probabilities are increasing for a short-term rebound, but a rebound is probably a reflex affair in a medium-term trend that just turned down," Mr. Roth said.
'Dow Theory' Confirms Sell Signal Steven Russolillo 2011
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It may also be a natural rebound from a pretty bad fourth quarter, when broadband net adds skidded at most ISPs.
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Last week: Biffle hopes to rebound from a 22nd-place finish at Richmond.
reesetee commented on the word rebound
Used to describe a book from which the entire original binding has been removed and replaced with a newer one. Compare with rebacked.
February 22, 2007