Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To repeat over and again; redouble.
- intransitive verb To double (the initial syllable or all of a root word) to produce an inflectional or derivational form.
- intransitive verb To form (a new word) by doubling all or part of a word.
- intransitive verb To be doubled.
- adjective Doubled.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To double again; multiply; repeat.
- In philology, to repeat, as a syllable or the initial part of a syllable (usually a root-syllable). See
reduplication . - In philology, to be doubled or repeated; undergo reduplication: as, reduplicating verbs.
- Redoubled; repeated; reduplicative.
- In botany:
- Valvate, with the edges folded back so as to project outward: said of petals and sepals in one form of estivation.
- Describing an estivation so characterized. Also
reduplicative .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Double; doubled; reduplicative; repeated.
- adjective (Bot.) Valvate with the margins curved outwardly; -- said of the �stivation of certain flowers.
- transitive verb To redouble; to multiply; to repeat.
- transitive verb (Gram.) To repeat the first letter or letters of (a word). See
Reduplication , 3.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
doubled - verb linguistics To
repeat aword or section of a word in order to form a new word orphrase , possibly withmodification of one of the repetitions.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb form by reduplication
- verb make or do or perform again
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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At that point, it would be perfectly understandable that some dialects would adopt a new form like *ōl-ōl- or something similar simply because /l/ was the only consonant left to reduplicate.
The hidden face 2010
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As Baudrillard would have seen it, neither Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Ashcroft, Gonzalez or their cronies would have had to imitate or reduplicate or parody what they wanted to hide.
A Response to 8 Years of George W. Bush's Simulucrum on Real Humans 2008
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I won't try to reduplicate his work, but let me just throw one quote at you from Ian Fishback.
Impeachment? David 2006
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Then the exact same thing would obviously happen in the reduplicate d perfect.
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I won't try to reduplicate his work, but let me just throw one quote at you from Ian Fishback.
Archive 2006-01-01 David 2006
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The one and only problem is whether we can give an account of the Incarnation that allows us to reduplicate in this way.
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There are similar processes in many other languages, like the English example where you reduplicate the word but change the initial of the reduplicated form to d- killer-diller, super-duper, etc.
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Guermantes invariably proceed to curtail or reduplicate syllables.
The Guermantes Way 2003
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Again, as their bond is supposed to reduplicate upon the national covenants, and so to bind to every article in them, by native consequence, they swear to a prelatical government: for seeing they have made no exception in their bond, it must be applied to no other, but the government, which presently exists; and this, in flat contradiction to the covenants, by which such a government is abjured.
Act, Declaration, & Testimony for the Whole of our Covenanted Reformation, as Attained to, and Established in Britain and Ireland; Particularly Betwixt the Years 1638 and 1649, Inclusive The Reformed Presbytery
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The same reasons, moreover, which induced the Master to reduplicate his lesson demands that we should also reduplicate ours: it is our part both in matter and in method to follow his steps.
The Parables of Our Lord William Arnot
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