redound

Meanings

1. To swell up (of water, waves etc.); to overflow, to surge (of bodily fluids).
2. To contribute to an advantage or disadvantage for someone or something.
3. To contribute to the honour, shame etc. of a person or organisation.
4. To reverberate, to echo.
5. To reflect (honour, shame etc.) to or onto someone.
6. To attach, come back, accrue to someone; to reflect back on or upon someone (of honour, shame etc.).
7. To arise from or out of something.
8. To roll back; to be sent or driven back.

1. A coming back, as an effect or consequence; a return.

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman redunder, Middle French redonder, and their source, Latin redundō, from red- + undō (“surge”), from unda (“a wave”).