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verb-intransitive. To spring or bounce back after hitting or colliding with something.

verb-intransitive. To recover, as from depression or disappointment.

verb-intransitive. To reecho; resound.

verb-intransitive. Basketball To retrieve and gain possession of the ball as it bounces off the backboard or rim after an unsuccessful shot.

v. To cause to rebound.

v. Basketball To gain possession of (the ball) off the backboard or rim.

n. A springing or bounding back; a recoil.

n. Sports A rebounding or caroming ball or hockey puck.

n. Basketball The act or an instance of taking possession of a rebounding ball.

n. A quick recovery from or reaction to disappointment or depression: He is on the rebound following a tumultuous breakup.

v. Past tense and past participle of rebind.

n. The recoil of an object bouncing off another.

n. A return to health or well-being; a recovery.

n. An effort to recover from a setback.

n. A romantic partner with whom one begins a relationship (or the relationship one begins) for the sake of getting over a previous, recently-ended romantic relationship.

n. The strike of the ball after it has bounced off a defending player, the crossbar or goalpost.

n. An instance of catching the ball after it has hit the rim or backboard without a basket being scored, generally credited to a particular player.

v. To bound or spring back from a force.

v. To jump up or get back up again.

v. Simple past tense and past participle of rebind.

verb-intransitive. To spring back; to start back; to be sent back or reverberated by elastic force on collision with another body.

verb-intransitive. To give back an echo.

verb-intransitive. To bound again or repeatedly, as a horse.

verb-intransitive. to recover, as from sickness, psychological shock, or disappointment.

v. To send back; to reverberate.

n. The act of rebounding; resilience.

n. recovery, as from sickness, psychological shock, or disappointment.

To bound or spring back; fly back from force of impact, as an elastic or free-moving body striking against a solid substance.

To bound or bounce again; repeat a bound or spring; make repeated bounds or springs.

To fall back; recoil, as to a starting-point or a former state; return as with a spring.

To send sounds back and forth; reverberate; resound; reëcho.

Synonyms Rebound, Reverberate, Recoil. Rebound and reverberate apply to that which strikes an unyielding object and bounds back or away; recoil applies to that which springs back from a position of rest, as a cannon or rifle when discharged, or a man and a rattlesnake when they discover their proximity to each other. Reverberate, by onomatopœia, applies chiefly to heavy sounds, but has other special uses (see the word); it has no figurative extension. Recoil is most freely used in figure: as, a man's treachery recoils upon himself; in sudden fright the blood recoils upon the heart.

To throw or drive back, as sound; make an echo or reverberation of; repeat as an echo or echoes.

n. The act of flying back on collision with another body; a bounding back or in reverse; resilience; recoil; reëcho; reverberation.

v. return to a former condition

n. the act of securing possession of the rebounding basketball after a missed shot

v. spring back; spring away from an impact

n. a movement back from an impact

n. a reaction to a crisis or setback or frustration

"It may also be a natural rebound from a pretty bad fourth quarter, when broadband net adds skidded at most ISPs."

rebinding    rebinds    rebounded    rebounding    rebounds   

recuperate    go back    recover    grab    snap    catch    snatch    reaction    response   

rebounding lock    bound   

reverberate    resilience    bound   

Pound    Sound    abound    aground    around    astound    bound    browned    compound    confound   

unrelentingwill    perseveration    counter-air    partizanship    self-judgment    devastator    exposé    rack-renting    heis    dissector