Definitions for: Reduplicate


[v] make or do or perform again; "He could never replicate his brilliant performance of the magic trick"
[v] form by reduplication, as of sounds or morphemes of a word



Webster (1913) Definition: Re*du"pli*cate (r?*d?"pl?*k?t), a. [Pref. re- +
duplicate: cf. L. reduplicatus. Cf. Redouble.]
1. Double; doubled; reduplicative; repeated.

2. (Bot.) Valvate with the margins curved outwardly; -- said
of the ?stivation of certain flowers.


Re*du"pli*cate (-k?t), v. t. [Cf. LL.
reduplicare.]
1. To redouble; to multiply; to repeat.

2. (Gram.) To repeat the first letter or letters of (a word).
See Reduplication, 3.

Synonyms: double, duplicate, repeat, replicate

See Also: copy, geminate, recapitulate, reduplicate, reproduce

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