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Latest TIME p.8: "...the regime there is hesitant to let the U;S. use it in a new confrontation,
for fear that anti-American sentiment would rebound against them."
Rebound, hell. It never went down. Uncommon, to be sure, but redound fits the
meaning of the sentence better, though I don't expect any of you to agree.
redound
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ME redounden < MFr redonder < L redundare, to overflow < re(d)3, intens. + undare, to surge,
swell < unda, a wave: see WATER6
1 to have a result or effect (to the credit or discredit, etc. of someone or something)
2 to come back; react; recoil (upon): said of honor or disgrace
3 [Obs.] to surge up or overflow
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