[syn: duplicate, reduplicate, double, repeat, replicate]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Reduplicate \Re*du"pli*cate\ (r?*d?"pl?*k?t), a. [Pref. re- +
duplicate: cf. L. reduplicatus. Cf. Redouble.]
1. Double; doubled; reduplicative; repeated.
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2. (Bot.) Valvate with the margins curved outwardly; -- said
of the ?stivation of certain flowers.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Reduplicate \Re*du"pli*cate\ (-k?t), v. t. [Cf. LL.
reduplicare.]
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1. To redouble; to multiply; to repeat.
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2. (Gram.) To repeat the first letter or letters of (a word).
See Reduplication, 3.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
reduplicate
v 1: form by reduplication; "The consonant reduplicates after a
short vowel"; "The morpheme can be reduplicated to
emphasize the meaning of the word" [syn: reduplicate,
geminate]
2: make or do or perform again; "He could never replicate his
brilliant performance of the magic trick" [syn: duplicate,
reduplicate, double, repeat, replicate]