What's the difference between redound and refound?

Redound


Definition:

  • (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.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I have indicated that these three abstract considerations arise around four procedural foci for research involving humans: A) the requirement of free and informed consent of competent human subjects; B) the requirement of proxy consent from incompetent human subjects; C) the avoidance of coercion in the consent context; and D) an interest in having research involving humans redound to the general good of society.

Refound


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To found or cast anew.
  • (v. t.) To found or establish again; to re/stablish.
  • () imp. & p. p. of Refind, v. t.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Some S-100 reactive cells previously interpreted as tumour cells were refound in a few tumours.
  • (2) And you'll find a similar analysis in Peter Hain's report Refounding Labour (pdf) , although I think I said it four or five years ago.
  • (3) Castro has promised to "refound" Honduras and achieve greater security, in part by reducing the internal role of the military and creating a more responsive community police force.
  • (4) Red and white are the colours of the Freedom and Refoundation party, known by its Spanish acronym Libre, and the young people are part of an army of activists who have changed the political landscape in Honduras since 2009.
  • (5) Peter Hain has launched his Refounding Labour consultation website this week.
  • (6) The answer, it transpires, has more to do with the UK's fading romance with the car than a refound love of the train.
  • (7) Recovery analyses revealed that 80.5% of labelled cyclic AMP was refound after extraction and purification procedures.
  • (8) François Hollande has declared that there needs to be a “refoundation” of the EU.
  • (9) Backing the calls for internal party reform set out in the Refounding Labour report, he said the party needed to reach out to non-members.
  • (10) While some of his former proteges have switched to the new centre-right party in a ruling coalition with the prime minister, Enrico Letta, Berlusconi is rallying support for his refounded Forza Italia (Go Italy) party.
  • (11) I've refound friends and family whom I now don't know what I'd do without, and I don't know why I accidentally sidelined some: just my weird caustic mix of arrogance and guilt.
  • (12) Its consequences were so far-reaching that the Chair of Orthopedic Medicine in Freiburg was not refounded until 1970- the last in Germany.
  • (13) Grade 2 and 3 reflux found on the video VCU was refound on the renocystography.
  • (14) The exclusive uptake of Lucifer Yellow liposomes by neurons is also refound in suprachiasmatic cultures.
  • (15) To open up the health service, Francis wants to refound the NHS on principles of transparency, candour and openness and put the patient's voice at the heart of the service.
  • (16) The supporters have definitely refound their voice.
  • (17) This was a first step to reclaiming the lost power and glory of the great medieval Muslim empires and refounding the caliphate.

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