rebellow

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UK/ɹiːˈbɛləʊ/

verb

Of a place: to re-echo to or with a sound.

OriginLatin reboāre →
First used 16th c.Scrabble 13
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Meanings

verbrebellow (third-person singular simple present rebellows, present participle rebellowing, simple past and past participle rebellowed)

present singular third person rebellows · participle present rebellowing · participle past rebellowed · past rebellowed

  1. archaicintransitiveOf a place: to re-echo to or with a sound.First known use 16th c.

    The cave rebellowed, and the temple shook.

    1697, Virgil, “The Sixth Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC
  2. intransitiveobsoleteOf a bull (or similar animal): to bellow again, or as a reply.First known use 16th–19th c.

    The Lyons rore; the Tygres loudly bray; / The raging Buls rebellow through the wood […].

    1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Origin

  1. Latinreboāre
  2. Englishrebellow

From re- + bellow, after Latin reboāre.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

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APA

rebellow. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/rebellow

MLA

“rebellow.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/rebellow. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “rebellow,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/rebellow.

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