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reduplicate

[ verb ri-doo-pli-keyt, -dyoo-; adjective ri-doo-pli-kit, -keyt, -dyoo- ]

verb (used with object)

reduplicated, reduplicating.
  1. to double; repeat.
  2. Grammar. to form (a derivative or inflected form) by doubling a specified syllable or other portion of the primitive, sometimes with fixed modifications, as in Greek ±ôé±ô´Ç¾±±è²¹ “I have left,†±ô±ðí±è´Ç “I leave.â€


verb (used without object)

reduplicated, reduplicating.
  1. to become doubled.
  2. Grammar. to become reduplicated.

adjective

  1. doubled.

reduplicate

verb

  1. to make or become double; repeat
  2. to repeat (a sound or syllable) in a word or (of a sound or syllable) to be repeated, esp in forming inflections in certain languages
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

adjective

  1. doubled or repeated
  2. (of petals or sepals) having the margins curving outwards
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • °ù±ðˈ»å³Ü±è±ô¾±³¦²¹³Ù¾±±¹±ð, adjective
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of reduplicate1

1560–70; < Late Latin °ù±ð»å³Ü±è±ô¾±³¦Äå³Ù³Ü²õ (past participle of °ù±ð»å³Ü±è±ô¾±³¦Äå°ù±ð ), equivalent to Latin re- re- + duplic ( Äå°ù±ð ) to double + -Äå³Ù³Ü²õ -ate 1 ( duplicate )
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He retained them in the multipanel murals, which were composed of three to five individual prints, with figures at the margins sliced and reduplicated where the prints overlapped.

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In this show’s 1912 collage of a face by Picasso, a reduplicated nose and ear seem to cast doubt on the entire project of orderly representation.

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His efforts have already reduplicated existing government efforts in some cases.

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In my fight against my care receivers' dementia I try to reduplicate their own favourite dishes.

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Lefty gave us his magnificently written poem which he could never reduplicate because he had lost his hand.

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