redouble

Plural: redoubles

Verb

Verb Forms: redoubled, redoubling, redoubles

• To make twice as great or intense.
• 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"
• To double, especially to double again; to increase considerably; to multiply; to intensify.
• To double an opponent's doubling bid.
• To become twice as big.
• To double again what was reduced to a single state.

Noun

• An optional bid made by the side currently holding the highest bid for the contract, after the opposing side has doubled.

Examples

• After his opponent scored big, he had to redouble his efforts to catch up.
• Having lost sight of our objectives, we redoubled our efforts.

Anagrams of redouble