rebound
IPA: ribˈaʊnd
noun
- The recoil of an object bouncing off another.
- A return to health or well-being; a recovery.
- An effort to recover from a setback.
- (colloquial) The period of getting over a recently ended romantic relationship.
- (colloquial) A romantic partner with whom one begins a relationship (or the relationship one begins) for the sake of getting over a previous, recently ended romantic relationship.
- (sports) The strike of the ball after it has bounced off a defending player or the crossbar or goalpost.
- (basketball) An instance of catching the ball after it has hit the rim or backboard without a basket being scored, generally credited to a particular player.
verb
- To bound or spring back from a force.
- To give back an echo.
- (figuratively) To jump up or get back up again.
- (transitive) To send back; to reverberate.
- (basketball) To catch the ball after it has hit the rim or backboard without scoring a basket for the other team.
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Examples of "rebound" in Sentences
- That's a rebound from the dismal days of 2008 and 2009.
- Last week: Biffle hopes to rebound from a 22nd-place finish at Richmond.
- It may also be a natural rebound from a pretty bad fourth quarter, when [...]
- It may also be a natural rebound from a pretty bad fourth quarter, when broadband net adds skidded at most ISPs.
- Banking stocks, which have been hard-hit recently, staged a mini-rebound though I use the word rebound with caution.
- It has since climbed back a bit, but the relatively strong growth of the past decade should be seen mainly as a rebound from the 1990s trough.
- True, the politics are really, really, really simple: If the rebound is slower than Rove just predicted, then he can say: Ha! Obama screwed everything up by passing the stimulus plan!
- "New short-term oversold extremes mean probabilities are increasing for a short-term rebound, but a rebound is probably a reflex affair in a medium-term trend that just turned down," Mr. Roth said.
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