REDOUND Synonyms: 15 Similar and Opposite Words

redound

verb

as in to result

formal to have a particular result

—used especially to describe how something affects someone or something or affects the opinion that people have about someone or something

—+ to It redounds to his credit that he worked so hard to prevent this crisis.

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Recent Examples of redound This has both saved lives and redounded enormously to our benefit economically, culturally, and socially. —

Khaleda Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Oct. 2025 Much of the wealth generated in terms of company creation and jobs has redounded to innovative clusters. —

Hemant Bhargava, Twin Cities, 8 Oct. 2025 Fear and instability redound to the benefit of authoritarians, so violence done in the name of left-wing causes serves right-wing ends. —

Michelle Goldberg, Mercury News, 27 Sep. 2025 And then too there is the less tangible, more lyrical side of space travel that may redound in NASA’s favor. —

Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 22 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for redound

Recent Examples of Synonyms for redound

result

Verb

Temperatures will next climb above freezing on Tuesday afternoon, according to the National Weather Service, and result then in the quick improvement of roads which, in Fort Worth, are covered in a layer of sleet and snow.

— Star-Telegram staff, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 Jan. 2026
Shortages in Vermont result from the frequency of storms this season, according to reporting by Vermont Public.

— Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 25 Jan. 2026