to redouble
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6.5
- verb
- /rɪˈdʌbəl/
- Formal
- The team decided to redouble its efforts to secure funding for the new project.
- redouble efforts
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Watch on YouTubeAnd what we should do moving forward is redouble our efforts to integrate immigrants into the American mainstream.
- And what we should do moving forward is redouble our efforts to integrate immigrants into the American mainstream.
Examples
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The United States will also need to redouble its efforts to discourage subsidies to consumers.
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So we must redouble our efforts, work together.
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I think you need to redouble your efforts again.
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And we we should redouble our efforts to find solutions to make that better.
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But mama, we must redouble our efforts here.
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Because now is the time that we have to redouble our efforts.
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Finally, the international community must redouble its efforts to prevent the spread of weapons of mass destruction.
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To help prevent such a scenario, the United States should redouble its efforts to solve the North Korea problem.
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And what we should do moving forward is redouble our efforts to integrate immigrants into the American mainstream.
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"Above all, we must redouble our efforts to help students acquire analytical and critical-thinking skills.
Academic text (1998)
Synonyms
∞
1.3
Make an amount or level higher
∞
1.0
To make something larger or more in number
∞
1.8
Make something larger in number, amount or degree
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3.0
Increase slowly over time
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5.5
To become larger, more serious, or more intense
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3.4
Make something greater in amount, speed or strength
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4.1
To make a feeling, effect or situation stronger
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4.0
Make something stronger or more intense
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3.2
To increase in number quickly by making more of something
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3.6
Make a feeling or situation stronger
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4.1
To make something larger, stronger, or more important
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4.1
To increase something, especially its amount or speed
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5.3
To make something bigger by adding more to it
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6.7
To increase something slowly until it becomes hard to reduce
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3.9
Increase the size or amount of something so it still works well
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5.7
To give new energy and interest to a person or thing
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5.8
To make something much more powerful or effective
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2.8
To make a number or amount twice as much
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6.1
To make something three times as much
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7.1
Gradually become stronger until a high point
Antonyms
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Etymology
Redouble comes from the prefix re- meaning 'again' and the word double meaning 'two times', so it is like doing something twice more. That is why to redouble is to make an effort or force much stronger or to try again with more energy.