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rebound

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rebound
verb
1 the ball rebounded off the wall:
bounce, bounce back, spring back, ricochet, boomerang, glance, recoil;
North American carom;
rare resile.
2 sterling rebounded and closed half a pfennig higher:
recover, rally, bounce back, pick up, make a recovery, make a comeback.
3 Thomas's tactics rebounded on him:
backfire on, misfire on, boomerang on, have an adverse effect on, have unwelcome repercussions for, come back on, be self-defeating for, cause one to be hoist with one's own petard;
informal score an own goal;
archaic redound on.
rebound (1) Oxford Dictionary of English