redouble

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

REDOUBLE, verb transitive redub'l. [re and double.] 1. To repeat in return. 2. To repeat often; as, to redouble blows. 3. To increase by repeated or continued additions. And AEtna rages with redoubl'd heat. REDOUBLE, verb intransitive redub'l. To become twice as much. The argument redoubles upon us.
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