rebound

1. 1.

   spring back; spring away from an impact

   “The rubber ball bounced”

   “These particles do not resile but they unite after they collide”

   Synonymsbounceresiletake a hopspringboundrecoilreverberatericochet

   Broaderjump

   Narrowerkick backskipcarom
2. 2.

   return to a former condition

   “The jilted lover soon rallied and found new friends”

   “The stock market rallied”

   Synonymsrally

   Broaderrecover

Other forms of rebound

plural

rebounds·

past tense

rebounded·

present participle

rebounding·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about rebound

What does rebound mean?

rebound means "a movement back from an impact". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in rebound?

rebound has 2 syllables: re-bound. The stress falls on "bound". In IPA it is /ɹiˈbaʊnd/.

What is another word for rebound?

Close synonyms include recoil, repercussion, backlash, bounce, resile. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is rebound a common word?

rebound is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with rebound?

13 words rhyme with rebound. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.