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English Dictionary: Reduplicate by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
reduplicate
v
  1. form by reduplication; "The consonant reduplicates after a short vowel"; "The morpheme can be reduplicated to emphasize the meaning of the word"
    Synonym(s): reduplicate, geminate
  2. make or do or perform again; "He could never replicate his brilliant performance of the magic trick"
    Synonym(s): duplicate, reduplicate, double, repeat, replicate
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Reduplicate \Re*du"pli*cate\ (r?*d?"pl?*k?t), a. [Pref. re- +
      duplicate: cf. L. reduplicatus. Cf. {Redouble}.]
      1. Double; doubled; reduplicative; repeated.
  
      2. (Bot.) Valvate with the margins curved outwardly; -- said
            of the [?]stivation of certain flowers.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Reduplicate \Re*du"pli*cate\ (-k?t), v. t. [Cf. LL.
      reduplicare.]
      1. To redouble; to multiply; to repeat.
  
      2. (Gram.) To repeat the first letter or letters of (a word).
            See {Reduplication}, 3.
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