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VERB (2)

1. form by reduplication;
- Example: "The consonant reduplicates after a short vowel"
- Example: "The morpheme can be reduplicated to emphasize the meaning of the word"
[syn: reduplicate, geminate]

2. make or do or perform again;
- Example: "He could never replicate his brilliant performance of the magic trick"
[syn: duplicate, reduplicate, double, repeat, replicate]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Reduplicate \Re*du"pli*cate\ (r?*d?"pl?*k?t), a. [Pref. re- + duplicate: cf. L. reduplicatus. Cf. Redouble.] 1. Double; doubled; reduplicative; repeated. [1913 Webster] 2. (Bot.) Valvate with the margins curved outwardly; -- said of the ?stivation of certain flowers. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Reduplicate \Re*du"pli*cate\ (-k?t), v. t. [Cf. LL. reduplicare.] [1913 Webster] 1. To redouble; to multiply; to repeat. [1913 Webster] 2. (Gram.) To repeat the first letter or letters of (a word). See Reduplication, 3. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

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" [syn: reduplicate, geminate] 2: make or do or perform again; "He could never replicate his brilliant performance of the magic trick" [syn: duplicate, reduplicate, double, repeat, replicate]