to redouble
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6.5
- verb
- /rɪˈdʌbəl/
- Formal
:
redoblar
- The team decided to redouble its efforts to secure funding for the new project.
- redouble efforts
And 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.
Academic text (1998) -
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
∞
1.0
To make something larger or more in number
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1.8
Make something larger in number, amount or degree
220
5.5
To become larger, more serious, or more intense
207
3.0
Increase slowly over time
110
4.0
Make something stronger or more intense
76
4.1
To make a feeling, effect or situation stronger
75
3.2
To increase in number quickly by making more of something
74
3.4
Make something greater in amount, speed or strength
52
3.6
Make a feeling or situation stronger
52
5.3
To make something bigger by adding more to it
47
4.1
To increase something, especially its amount or speed
44
4.1
To make something larger, stronger, or more important
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5.7
To give new energy and interest to a person or thing
18
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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1.3
Make an amount or level higher
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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
1
5.8
To make something much more powerful or effective
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7.1
Gradually become stronger until a high point
Antonyms
How Intense
Surface Forms
Morphology
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.