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Confident bridge bidder's call
Answer for the clue "Confident bridge bidder's call ", 8 letters:
redouble
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Word definitions for redouble in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Redouble \Re*dou"ble\n. An optional bid made by the side currently holding the highest bid for the contract, after the opposing side has doubled. This bid increases the score for successfully making the contract, and increases the penalties for failing. ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. double in magnitude, extent, or intensity; "The enemy redoubled their screaming on the radio" double again; "The noise doubled and redoubled" make twice as great or intense; "The screaming redoubled"
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., "double again, multiply" (trans.), from Middle French redoubler , from Old French re- "again" (see re- ) + doubler "to double" (see double (v.)). Meaning "become twice as much" (intrans.) is from late 15c. Related: Redoubled ; redoubling .
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN effort ▪ We redoubled our efforts to control the flood of water that gushes down our field from the mountains behind. ▪ You will to the utmost maintain a middle attitude and redouble your efforts to carry out our policy. ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context bridge English) An optional bid made by the side currently holding the highest bid for the contract, after the opposing side has doubled. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To double, especially to double again; to increase considerably; to ...
Usage examples of redouble.
All the wizards with the imperial army redoubled their apotropaic spells.
It was inscribed on his colossal statues, and repeated in the redoubled acclamations of the mournful and applauding senate.
He cursed and redoubled his effort, expecting to hear shouts from the preservationist camp at any moment.
True, a long list of Christian writers may be cited as maintaining that this is to be a principal element in the felicity of the redeemed, gloating over the tortures of the damned, singing the song of praise with redoubled emphasis as they see their parents, their children, their former bosom companions, writhing and howling in the fell extremities of torture.
You cannot pursue him yourself though, not without doubling and redoubling the whispers that plague you.
The shadowy rumors doubtless made their way to the Resistance, fueling their rage, redoubling their determination.
She was convinced that she was hearing the creature roar, moaning in fury, redoubling its efforts to try to drag her down.
The children surged forward, redoubling their hollering, streaming down to the quayside from the teeming barrios above.
Her heartbeat redoubled and she looked down, trying to regula rise her breathing.
Broken from their field, scattered everywhere under the built-up pressures of the past twenty-four hours, the energies that had been raised and redoubled and then released, undispersed, from their bounds were far from spent.
The dangerous temptations which on every side lurked in ambush to surprise the unguarded believer, assailed him with redoubled violence on the days of solemn festivals.
Mark Brandon redoubled the terror of Louisa, who now gave herself up for lost, expecting every moment that the searching eyes of the ever-watchful bushranger would spy her out amongst the rocks, and that she would be suddenly dragged from her retreat to share the fate of her sister!
I redoubled my effort, not just at the fencing and cavalla techniques that I loved, but also on the academic studies that were my demons.
Stern focused on the crossarm high above his head and redoubled his efforts, scraping both cheeks and inner forearms as he struggled upward.
The most perfect tranquility was restored, and the vigilance of the customhouse officers was redoubled, and their strictness was increased at this time, in consequence of the fair at Beaucaire.