'Reduplicate' definitions:

Definition of 'reduplicate'

From: WordNet
verb
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]
verb
Make or do or perform again; "He could never replicate his brilliant performance of the magic trick" [syn: duplicate, reduplicate, double, repeat, replicate]

Definition of 'Reduplicate'

From: GCIDE
  • Reduplicate \Re*du"pli*cate\ (r?*d?"pl?*k?t), a. [Pref. re- + duplicate: cf. L. reduplicatus. Cf. Redouble.]
  • 1. Double; doubled; reduplicative; repeated. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. (Bot.) Valvate with the margins curved outwardly; -- said of the ?stivation of certain flowers. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Reduplicate'

From: GCIDE
  • Reduplicate \Re*du"pli*cate\ (-k?t), v. t. [Cf. LL. reduplicare.] [1913 Webster]
  • 1. To redouble; to multiply; to repeat. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. (Gram.) To repeat the first letter or letters of (a word). See Reduplication, 3. [1913 Webster]

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