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noun

Rebound n.

The act of rebounding; resilience. "Flew... back, as from a rock, with swift rebound."

Recovery, as from sickness, psychological shock, or disappointment.

verb

rebind, re-bind v. t. (past & past part. rebound; pres. part. rebinding) To provide with a new binding, as of books. Usually used without the hyphen.

Rebound v. t. To send back; to reverberate. "Silenus sung; the vales his voice rebound."

Rebound v. i.

To spring back; to start back; to be sent back or reverberated by elastic force on collision with another body; as, a rebounding echo. "Bodies which are absolutely hard, or so soft as to be void of elasticity, will not rebound from one another."

To give back an echo. (R.)

To bound again or repeatedly, as a horse.

To recover, as from sickness, psychological shock, or disappointment.

Rebounding lock (Firearms), one in which the hammer rebounds to half cock after striking the cap or primer.

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Etymology of 'Rebound'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Rebound" Quotes from Famous Books

... terribly footsore. No spring or rebound was left in them. Their feet fell heavily on the trail, jarring their bodies and doubling the fatigue of a day's travel. There was nothing the matter with them except that they were dead tired. It was not the dead-tiredness that comes ...

— The Call of the Wild • Jack London

... to my way: Thy hounds, Taygetus, open, and pursue their prey: High Epidaurus urges on my speed, Famed for his hills, and for his horses' breed: From hills and dales the cheerful cries rebound: For Echo hunts along, and ...

— Essays and Tales • Joseph Addison

... again. They reminded an observer of a drowning scene in a picture of the Deluge. At some points the face of rock was hollowed into gaping caverns, and the water began to thunder into these with a leap that was only topped by the rebound seaward again. The vessel's head was kept a little further to sea, but beyond that everything ...

— The Hand of Ethelberta • Thomas Hardy

... injustice, unwisdom and folly of the code under which it lived. It was here that the first hard blows were struck. It was here the paths were marked out that have been trodden with bleeding feet for half a century, until at length the blows no longer rebound and the hands of the grateful, loving womanhood of the world struggle for a place to scatter roses in the paths which erstwhile were flint and thorns; and an admiring world of women and men alike breathe in tones of respect, ...

— The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume V • Ida Husted Harper

... good,—but to whom evil is sometimes horribly, hideously evil, but is sometimes also not hideous at all. Of such men it may be said that Satan obtains an intermittent grasp, from which, when it is released, the rebound carries them high amidst virtuous resolutions and a thorough love of things good and noble. Such men,—or women,—may hardly, perhaps, debase themselves with the more vulgar vices. They will not be rogues, ...

— The Eustace Diamonds • Anthony Trollope

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