MEANING
To have an effect that contributes to a person’s credit, benefit, advantage, or discredit.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- redound to someone’s credit
- redound to the benefit of
On the page
Her refusal to conceal the error redounded to her credit.
The new arrangement redounded to the benefit of the people least able to influence it.
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Word forms
- Base
- redound
- Past tense
- redounded
- Past participle
- redounded
- Present participle
- redounding
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- redound
- Present continuous
- am/is/are redounding
- Present perfect
- have/has redounded
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been redounding
- Past
- redounded
- Past continuous
- was/were redounding
- Past perfect
- had redounded
- Past perfect continuous
- had been redounding
- Future
- will redound
- Future continuous
- will be redounding
- Future perfect
- will have redounded
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been redounding
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: literary. Forms: redound; redounds; redounded; redounded; redounding Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: redounds.
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