redouble
redouble
Definition
re·dou·ble (rē dub′əl)
transitive verb -·bled, -·bling
- to make twice as much or twice as great
- to make much greater; intensify redouble your efforts
- to make echo or reecho
- to refold; double back
- Archaic to repeat
intransitive verb
- to become twice as great or twice as much
- to reecho
- to turn backward, as on one's tracks
- Bridge to further increase the point value or penalty of a bid which an opponent has doubled
noun
Bridge a redoubling
redouble
Synonyms
redouble
Usage Examples
Preposition: of
- effort: This achievement was followed by a successful redoubling of efforts in export markets.
Object
- effort: For its part, Europe must redouble efforts to build a union capable of acting collectively on the international stage.
- energy: Let us then prepare with redoubled energy for the decisive battle that is at hand!
- fury: The storm broke forth again with redoubled fury - gathering its distant thunder.
- force: The night of the 19th passed, but the next morning the storm blew with redoubled force.
- industry: These events have redoubled the insurance industry 's efforts to avoid the cost of occupational disease.
- commitment: But darker legacies bring uncertainty to this vision and demand redoubled commitment.
Infinitive complement
- show: He said I could make any bid at the two-level after partner's redouble to show him the psych.
Modifying Another Word
- now: For the last little while I had even lost, but now redoubling my efforts, I began once more to overhaul the chase.
- also: We will also redouble our efforts at the Geneva Conference on Disarmament to get the main export countries to stop selling landmines.
- merely: Leeds, however, merely redoubled their efforts and reaped their reward.
- then: This was doubled up to two of each, and then redoubled in 1967 to the present four of each.
- n't: That is not to say the terrorists wo n't redouble their efforts.
