(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.
Resound
Definition:
(v. i.) To sound loudly; as, his voice resounded far.
(v. i.) To be filled with sound; to ring; as, the woods resound with song.
(v. i.) To be echoed; to be sent back, as sound.
(v. i.) To be mentioned much and loudly.
(v. i.) To echo or reverberate; to be resonant; as, the earth resounded with his praise.
(v. t.) To throw back, or return, the sound of; to echo; to reverberate.
(v. t.) To praise or celebrate with the voice, or the sound of instruments; to extol with sounds; to spread the fame of.
(n.) Return of sound; echo.
Example Sentences:
(1) In Paris, Chancellor Angela Merkel and President François Hollande tried to plot a common strategy after Greeks returned a resounding no to five years of eurozone-scripted austerity.
(2) Nor – despite today's declaration that the three-day meeting had been a resounding success – was there more than patchy progress.
(3) Promising to tear up bailout agreements that had created a “humanitarian crisis”, Syriza surged to a resounding victory .
(4) 10.03am: This from Hiraldo_TIFC, one of the Guardian Fans' Network members: Jürgen Klinsmann speaking about the process of Germany's revival in the last 6 years , worthwhile read #worldcup #GER 10.13am: Below the line, ChuckSchick asks: "Would a resounding German World Cup win, coupled with an impressive CL run by Bayern lead to greater Bundesliga coverage on UK television?
(5) This case resoundingly illustrates that the strength of our Program is not limited only to testing.
(6) He used a set of figures purporting to show high weekend death-rates that have since been resoundingly rubbished by health statisticians.
(7) A Guardian poll in August 2013 produced a resounding no vote on quotas for UK parliamentarians .
(8) That is a resounding rebuke for Berlusconi -- whose efforts to unseat Letta appear to have turned sour.
(9) At the end of the night guests voted a resounding 'yes' to supporting the campaign.
(10) Feed-in tariffs for solar panels – where the government pays people for creating their own renewable energy – have been a resounding success, but the government now intends to cut them back, a decision that has led to legal action from solar companies.
(11) The almost certain resounding no to the alternative vote shows clearly that the voters think otherwise.
(12) Frustratingly for Hilton's critics, who like to paint him as a sort of misguided guff engine, the big society has been a resounding, concrete success.
(13) Our current answer is not a resounding “No!” It’s a slightly interrogatively inflected “Probably not”, which is hardly a ringing endorsement of the health of American civilisation.
(14) But his resounding 4,091 majority delivered David Cameron a key marginal.
(15) Otherwise, the narrative will proceed to its inevitable denouement: a resounding Labour defeat in 2010.
(16) The astonishing popularity of the “rock-star economist ” is itself a resounding testament to our concern for inequality.
(17) Jubilant Republicans declared the US election race back on Thursday, calling Mitt Romney's resounding victory over Barack Obama in the first of the presidential debates a "game changer".
(18) Lionel Messi scored within three minutes of returning to action for the first time in more than three weeks to help fire Barcelona to a resounding 4-0 home win over Deportivo La Coruña .
(19) There is much evidence to suggest voters will resoundingly reject Corbynism in its current form if he makes it to the next election.
(20) As the Tory cheers resounded at the end of the budget speech, standing at the back was the diminished figure of Boris Johnson, wearing the look of a man that knew his future rival had set the bar somewhere he has never been in politics.