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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

... and dented nose, so horridly embellished with a gash of red paint. He was broad and squat and fearfully powerful, being but a bulk of gristly muscle; and when he leaped a gully or a brook, he seemed to strike the earth like a ball of rubber and slightly rebound an the light impact. I have seen a sinewy panther so rebound when hurled ...

— The Hidden Children • Robert W. Chambers

... which Anathumiasis I take to be essentially the same as that aerial honey which we often find upon our oaks, especially in the spring, and that it differs only in thickness; for whereas that honey is sprinkled in drops, the little globules are hardened by the intense cold of the middle region, and rebound in falling. ...

— Ideal Commonwealths • Various

... in time to jump back. He yanked Gilfoyle's arm, but Gilfoyle had plunged forward. He might have escaped if Connery had let him go. But the cab struck him, hurled him in air against an iron pillar, caught him on the rebound and ran him down. Kedzie ...

— We Can't Have Everything • Rupert Hughes

... not the romantic feeling she had conceived for him be instantly turned into horror and disgust? When such a chill had withered a girl's fancy for a man, there could be no future blossoming, and her heart might be caught in the rebound. Once, Loria had thought that Virginia had been on the point of caring for him. Perhaps when they met she would turn to him again, remorseful for the pain she had caused, grateful for his unwavering loyalty; and, telling himself these things, ...

— The Castle Of The Shadows • Alice Muriel Williamson

... all the rays, and so looks white, for we have the whole of the sun's light returned to us again. But how about a blue thing? It absorbs all the rays except the blue, so that the blue rays are the only ones that come back or rebound from it again to meet our eyes, and this makes us see the object blue; and this is the case with all the other colours. A red object retains all rays except the red, which it sends back to us; a yellow object gives back ...

— The Children's Book of Stars • G.E. Mitton

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