REDOUBLED Synonyms: 72 Similar and Opposite Words

redoubled

verb

past tense of redouble

as in intensified

to make markedly greater in measure or degree rescuers redoubled their efforts to reach the people buried in the rubble after unexpectedly hearing someone call for help

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as in doubled

to make twice as great or as many if we redouble the recipe, we'll have enough cookies for everyone

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Recent Examples of redoubled As the war in the Middle East and the surge in crude prices provide a windfall to the Kremlin, Kyiv has redoubled its efforts to hobble Russia’s energy production. —

Tim Lister, CNN Money, 28 Mar. 2026 So, investigators redoubled their efforts to try to learn more. —

Peter Van Sant, CBS News, 22 Mar. 2026 The disjunction between the abstract composition and the notion of self-portraiture appeared perplexing in its own right; its inoperability only exacerbated the viewer’s frustration and redoubled the artist’s impish provocation. —

Ara H. Merjian, Artforum, 1 Jan. 2026 Kelly also questioned Festinger, Schachter, and Riecken’s claim that the Seekers redoubled their efforts to spread their message. —

Shayla Love, New Yorker, 17 Dec. 2025 With a team of thousands under his command, Hassabis has redoubled the company’s efforts on large language models, OpenAI’s stronghold. —

Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 17 Dec. 2025 Under Marsh, the European studio has redoubled its focus on theatrical films, with its worldwide box office tripling since 2022 thanks to the likes of Paddington in Peru, Back to Black, Wicked Little Letters, and French hit Beating Hearts. —

Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 16 Dec. 2025 So India looked for other partners, including in the developing world, and redoubled its efforts to build a nuclear program, which could provide an independent deterrent and help hedge against overreliance on the Soviet Union. —

Tanvi Madan, Foreign Affairs, 16 Dec. 2025 Its budget increased substantially during and just after World War II, with postwar adoption of Bush’s plan, and again after 1957 when the nation redoubled its commitment to science following Russia’s launch of Sputnik and the start of the space race. —

Fred D. Ledley, The Conversation, 15 Dec. 2025

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As unmanned systems have become increasingly central to modern ground warfare, militaries and defense researchers have intensified efforts to develop wireless charging and in-flight power delivery technologies.

— Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 19 Apr. 2026
Meanwhile, the federal government’s crackdown on immigration and state limits on how many hours seasonal foreign workers with H2A visas can work have intensified agricultural labor uncertainty.

— Bruce Finley, Denver Post, 19 Apr. 2026