Use the verb redound in formal situations to mean "contribute" or "have an effect." You could tell your friend that his patience with unruly children will redound to his reputation as a good school bus driver.
To roll back, as a wave or flood; to be sent or driven back; to flow back, as a consequence or effect; to conduce; to contribute; to result.
Verb
have an effect for good or ill; "Her efforts will redound to the general good"
Verb
be added; "Everything he does redounds to himself"
Verb
be deflected; "His actions redound on his parents"
Verb
be excessive in quantity
v. i.
To roll back, as a wave or flood; to be sent or driven
back; to flow back, as a consequence or effect; to conduce; to
contribute; to result.
v. i.
To be in excess; to remain over and above; to be
redundant; to overflow.
n.
The coming back, as of consequence or effect; result;
return; requital.
n.
Rebound; reverberation.
Redound
The evil, soon Driven back, redounded as a flood on those From whom it sprung.
The honor done to our religion ultimately redounds to God, the author of it.
both . . . will devour great quantities of paper, there will no small use redound from them to that manufacture.2.
For every dram of honey therein found, A pound of gall doth over it redound.
Redound
We give you welcome; not without redound Of use and glory to yourselves ye come.2.
To roll back, as a wave or flood; to be sent or driven back; to flow back, as a consequence or effect; to conduce; to contribute; to result.
The coming back, as of consequence or effect; result; return; requital.
Usage Examples
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