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REDUPLICATE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make or do or perform again

Example:

He could never replicate his brilliant performance of the magic trick

Synonyms:

double; duplicate; reduplicate; repeat; replicate

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Hypernyms (to "reduplicate" is one way to...):

reproduce (make a copy or equivalent of)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "reduplicate"):

copy; replicate (reproduce or make an exact copy of)

recapitulate (repeat stages of evolutionary development during the embryonic phase of life)

geminate; reduplicate (form by reduplication)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Form by reduplication

Example:

The morpheme can be reduplicated to emphasize the meaning of the word

Synonyms:

geminate; reduplicate

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Hypernyms (to "reduplicate" is one way to...):

double; duplicate; reduplicate; repeat; replicate (make or do or perform again)

Domain category:

linguistics (the scientific study of language)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

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