Reduplicate

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  • intransitive verb. To repeat over and again; redouble.
  • intransitive verb. undefined
  • intransitive verb. To double (the initial syllable or all of a root word) to produce an inflectional or derivational form.
  • intransitive verb. To form (a new word) by doubling all or part of a word.
  • intransitive verb. To be doubled.
  • adjective. Doubled.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To double again; multiply; repeat.
  • In philology, to repeat, as a syllable or the initial part of a syllable (usually a root-syllable). See reduplication.
  • In philology, to be doubled or repeated; undergo reduplication: as, reduplicating verbs.
  • Redoubled; repeated; reduplicative.
  • In botany:
  • Valvate, with the edges folded back so as to project outward: said of petals and sepals in one form of estivation.
  • Describing an estivation so characterized. Also reduplicative.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Double; doubled; reduplicative; repeated.
  • adjective. Valvate with the margins curved outwardly; -- said of the �stivation of certain flowers.
  • transitive verb. To redouble; to multiply; to repeat.
  • transitive verb. To repeat the first letter or letters of (a word). See Reduplication, 3.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. doubled
  • verb. To repeat a word or section of a word in order to form a new word or phrase, possibly with modification of one of the repetitions.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. form by reduplication
  • verb. make or do or perform again
  • Word Usage
    "At that point, it would be perfectly understandable that some dialects would adopt a new form like *ōl-ōl- or something similar simply because /l/ was the only consonant left to reduplicate."
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