rewind

present singular third person rewinds · participle present rewinding · participle past rewound · past rewound

1. intransitivetransitiveTo wind (something) again.

   A Myrish crossbowman poked his head out a different window, got off a bolt, and ducked down to rewind.

   2000 August 8, George R[aymond] R[ichard] Martin, “Arya [Stark]”, in A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire; 3), London: Voyager, →ISBN, page 440

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   […] she was winding and rewinding bandages that were dripping in blood, smiling strangely at her as the plasma spilled from buckets all over the floor.

   2012, Paul Kelly, The Surgeon Was a Lady

2. intransitivetransitiveTo wind back, of something clocklike or recordlike, like a cassette, tape, film; especially to then replay or relive.

   Rewind the tape to the first chapter.

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   Let's rewind the clock to an earlier time.

3. figurativelyTo regress the state of playback of a recording.

   This video player can rewind smoothly.

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   I've rewound the audiobook to the start of the chapter.

4. figurativelyTo go back or think back to a previous moment or place, or a previous point in a discourse.

   If I had a time machine / And if life was a movie scene / I'd rewind, and I'd tell me / "Ru-u-u-u-u-u-u-un"

   2014, Ingrid Michaelson, Trent Dabbs, busbee, “Time Machine”, in Lights Out, performed by Ingrid Michaelson

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   To understand Russia, you have to dive deep into its history — boyars and czars, Pushkin and Pasternak, Stalin and Stalingrad. To understand the perils of underestimating Russia, you don't have to go back that far. Just rewind to 2001, when George W. Bush naively sized up Vladimir Putin as a leader he could work with, a conclusion Bush reached when he looked into the Russian leader's eyes and "found him to be very straightforward and trustworthy.

   December 12 2016, Editorial Team, “Editorial: Trump, Putin and the risks of a reset”, in Chicago Tribune

plural rewinds

1. The act of rewinding.
2. A button or other mechanism for rewinding.

   I meant to pause the picture, but hit the rewind by mistake.