Reduplicate

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Definition

(verb.) form by reduplication; 'The consonant reduplicates after a short vowel'; 'The morpheme can be reduplicated to emphasize the meaning of the word'.

Typist: Rex--From WordNet

Definition

(a.) Double; doubled; reduplicative; repeated.

(a.) Valvate with the margins curved outwardly; -- said of the /stivation of certain flowers.

(v. t.) To redouble; to multiply; to repeat.

(v. t.) To repeat the first letter or letters of (a word). See Reduplication, 3.

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Synonyms and Synonymous

v. a. Redouble, repeat.

Typed by Arlene

Definition

v.t. to double again: to multiply: to repeat.—adj. doubled.—n. Reduplicā′tion the act of redoubling: the repetition of a syllable or of the initial part in inflection and word-formation as in L. fefelli perf. of fallo Gr. tetupha perf. of tuptō: (anat.) a folding or doubling of a part or organ.—adj. Redū′plicātive.

Typist: Wolfgang