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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
redouble
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.
▪ But Sheffield, who had survived two spot kick claims against goalkeeper Alan Kelly and full-back Ward, simply redoubled their efforts.
▪ When the United States intervened, the Front redoubled its efforts.
▪ The company is redoubling efforts to make its young advertising salesforce more professional.
▪ An appropriate response, it seemed, would have been for the company to redouble its efforts to improve its own offering.
▪ But the 90-strong band of pensioners are determined not to be down hearted and they have redoubled their fund raising efforts.
▪ When Chutra saw that I was laughing, he redoubled his efforts until we were at war with hundreds of monkeys.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Ashenden doubted it, his doubt redoubling as the coach drew further and further away from Oxford along the A34.
▪ From then on the pretty servant girls eyed him with a lustrous regret and redoubled their attentions.
▪ Instead of rethinking their programme, they redoubled their efforts to implement it.
▪ The company is redoubling efforts to make its young advertising salesforce more professional.
▪ When the United States intervened, the Front redoubled its efforts.
▪ You will to the utmost maintain a middle attitude and redouble your efforts to carry out our policy.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Redouble

Redouble \Re*dou"ble\ (r?*d?b"'l), v. t. [Pref. re- + double: cf. F. redoubler. Cf. Reduplicate.]

  1. To double again or repeatedly; to increase by continued or repeated additions; to augment greatly; to multiply.

    So they Doubly redoubled strokes upon the foe.
    --Shak.

  2. (Contract bridge) To bid a redouble.

Redouble

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. The score or penalty depends on the number of tricks over or under the contract, according to a defined schedule, and depending on the vulnerability of the side attempting the contract.

Redouble

Redouble \Re*dou"ble\, v. i. To become greatly or repeatedly increased; to be multiplied; to be greatly augmented; as, the noise redoubles.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
redouble

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.

Wiktionary
redouble

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 multiply; to intensify. 2 (context bridge backgammon English) To double an opponent's doubling bid. 3 (context intransitive English) To become twice as big.

WordNet
redouble

  1. v. double in magnitude, extent, or intensity; "The enemy redoubled their screaming on the radio"

  2. double again; "The noise doubled and redoubled"

  3. make twice as great or intense; "The screaming redoubled"

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.