reboundverb [ I ]
uk/ˌriːˈbaʊnd/us/ˌriːˈbaʊnd/to bounce back after hitting a hard surface
If an action rebounds on you, it does not have the effect you hoped for but has an unpleasant effect on you instead:
His continual demands for sympathy rebounded on him because his friends finally stopped listening.
to rise in price after a fall:
Cotton rebounded from declines early in the day to end at a higher price.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Failing and doing badly
- at-risk
- backbencher
- balls-up
- be running on empty idiom
- beat a dead horse idiom
- crack
- crash
- draw
- fail
- fall apart
- flunk out
- fray around/at the edges idiom
- fumble
- get off on the right/wrong foot idiom
- give up on sb/sth
- sink like a stone idiom 1
- sink like a stone
- so much for sth idiom
- stagnate
- strike out
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reboundnoun [ C or U ]
uk/ˈriː.baʊnd/us/ˈriː.baʊnd/the act of rebounding:
I hit the ball on the rebound (= after it had hit the wall or ground once).
in sports, a ball or puck (= small, round, hard object used in ice hockey) that becomes available after an unsuccessful attempt to score, or an occasion when this happens
in basketball, an occasion when a player successfully gets the ball after a shot (= attempt to score) has been missed:
Over three games he averaged 14.0 points and 8.7 rebounds.
Idiom(s)
on the rebound