rebound

rebound is a 7-letter English word with 10 senses as intransitive verb, transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To spring back; to start back; to be sent back or reverberated by elastic force on collision with another body; as, a rebounding echo. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 13 · 10 senses

Definitions

1. intransitive verb. To spring back; to start back; to be sent back or reverberated by elastic force on collision with another body; as, a rebounding echo.
2. intransitive verb. To give back an echo.
3. intransitive verb. To bound again or repeatedly, as a horse.
4. transitive verb. To send back; to reverberate.
5. noun. The act of rebounding; resilience.
6. noun. the act of securing possession of the rebounding basketball after a missed shot
7. noun. a reaction to a crisis or setback or frustration

   "he is still on the rebound from his wife's death"

8. noun. a movement back from an impact

   Synonyms: backlash, recoil, repercussion

9. verb. return to a former condition

   "The jilted lover soon rallied and found new friends"

   "The stock market rallied"

   Synonyms: rally

10. verb. spring back; spring away from an impact

    "The rubber ball bounced"

    "These particles do not resile but they unite after they collide"

    Synonyms: bounce, bound, recoil, resile, reverberate, ricochet, spring

Synonyms

backlash, recoil, repercussion, rally, bounce, bound, resile, reverberate, ricochet, spring

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in rebound:

beround, bounder, unbored, unorbed, unrobed

Common word forms

rebounds, rebounded, rebounder, rebounding, reboundable

Words from these letters

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