Other forms: rebounds, rebounded, rebounding
To rebound is to bounce back after striking something. The ball rebounded, rebound off the wall, a rebound shot.
In basketball, a rebound is the ball collected after a missed shot, and rebounds are counted as a statistic. Figuratively, to rebound on somebody means to have consequences that come back on the person who caused them. On the rebound describes somebody entering a relationship straight after the end of another, and it is nearly always a warning. Note rebound effect, which in medicine means a symptom returning worse when a drug stops.
1verbreboundTo bounce back after striking something.
“The ball rebounded off the wall and hit him on the head.”
2verbconsequencesTo have consequences that return to the cause.
“His lies eventually rebounded on him when nobody believed him any more.”
rebound is a bouncing back.
Old French rebondir is re- plus bondir, to leap. Bound, rebound and abound come from the same leaping, so a rebound is literally a second leap.
Old French
rebondir
English, today
rebound
From Old French rebondir.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
Practised in Hitting & Pushing