reduplicate Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb form by reduplication
    geminate.
    • The consonant reduplicates after a short vowel
    • The morpheme can be reduplicated to emphasize the meaning of the word
  2. verb make or do or perform again
    double; duplicate; repeat; replicate.
    • He could never replicate his brilliant performance of the magic trick

WordNet

Re*du"pli*cate adjective
Etymology
Pref. re- + duplicate: cf. L. reduplicatus. Cf. Redouble.
Definitions
  1. Double; doubled; reduplicative; repeated.
  2. (Bot.) Valvate with the margins curved outwardly; -- said of the stivation of certain flowers.
Re*du"pli*cate transitive verb
Etymology
Cf. LL. reduplicare.
Definitions
  1. To redouble; to multiply; to repeat.
  2. (Gram.) To repeat the first letter or letters of (a word). See Reduplication,3.

Webster 1913