redouble
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
redouble
v 1: double in magnitude, extent, or intensity; "The enemy
redoubled their screaming on the radio"
2: double again; "The noise doubled and redoubled"
3: make twice as great or intense; "The screaming redoubled"
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Redouble \Re*dou"ble\ (r?*d?b"'l), v. t. [Pref. re- + double:
cf. F. redoubler. Cf. {Reduplicate}.]
To double again or repeatedly; to increase by continued or
repeated additions; to augment greatly; to multiply.
[1913 Webster]
So they
Doubly redoubled strokes upon the foe. --Shak.
[1913 Webster]
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
61 Moby Thesaurus words for "redouble":
accelerate, aggravate, beef up, blow up, come again, complicate,
concentrate, condense, consolidate, copy, deepen, ditto,
do a repeat, do again, do over, double, dupe, duplicate, echo,
enhance, exacerbate, exaggerate, geminate, heat up, heighten,
hop up, hot up, imitate, ingeminate, intensify, jazz up, key up,
magnify, make complex, mount, multiply by two, parrot, plagiarize,
quote, ramify, redo, reduplicate, reecho, regurgitate, reincarnate,
reinforce, renew, repeat, replicate, reproduce, revive, rise,
rouse, say again, sharpen, soup up, step up, strengthen, triple,
twin, whet
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