rebound or redound?
In its figurative use, rebound is a metaphor based on the image of an object bouncing and returning. Just as a ball that rebounds affects the person who threw it, so an action or statement rebounds on its creator when it affects him or her directly, usually in an unpleasant or unwelcome way: His tactic of implementing the changes without consultation rebounded on him when his team walked out in protest.Redound, a much rarer word, is sometimes used in the same way as rebound, but in its primary meaning it is followed by to and means "to have a particular consequence," with something good or positive as the object (the opposite connotation of rebound): The offensive players' performance redounded to the benefit of the basketball team as a whole. Note that only rebound can be used as a noun.
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