redouble

redouble
—redoubler, n.
/ree dub"euhl/, v., redoubled, redoubling, n.
v.t.
1. to double; make twice as great: to redouble one's efforts.
2. to echo or reecho.
3. Bridge. to double the double of (an opponent).
4. to go back over: to redouble one's footsteps.
5. Archaic. to repeat.
v.i.
6. to be doubled; become twice as great.
7. to be echoed; resound.
8. Bridge. to double the double of an opponent.
n.
9. Bridge. the act of doubling one's opponent's double.
10. Fencing. an attack in a line other than that of the previous attack, made after the failure of the opponent to follow his or her parry of the previous attack with a riposte.
[1470-80; < MF redoubler. See RE-, DOUBLE]

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