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rebound   (TTS Sound)

The noun rebound has 3 senses

• recoil, repercussion, rebound, backlash -- (a movement back from an impact)


• rebound -- (a reaction to a crisis or setback or frustration; "he is still on the rebound from his wife's death")


• rebound -- (the act of securing possession of the rebounding basketball after a missed shot)

The verb rebound has 2 senses

• bounce, resile, take a hop, spring, bound, rebound, recoil, reverberate, ricochet -- (spring back; spring away from an impact; "The rubber ball bounced"; "These particles do not resile but they unite after they collide")


• rally, rebound -- (return to a former condition; "The jilted lover soon rallied and found new friends"; "The stock market rallied")