reduplicate
verb [intransitive, transitive]Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they reduplicate | |
he / she / it reduplicates | |
past simple reduplicated | |
past participle reduplicated | |
-ing form reduplicating |
- reduplicate (something/itself)
to make a copy of something in order to form another of the same kind 复制;加倍 Word Originlate 16th cent.: from late Latin reduplicat-, ‘doubled again’, from the verb reduplicare, from re- ‘again’ + duplicare (from duplic- ‘twofold’, from duo ‘two’ + plicare ‘to fold’).