nnna:

Main Entry: ¹re·bound
Function: verb
Etymology: Middle English rebounden, from Middle French rebondir, from Old French, from re- + bondir to bound -- more at BOUND
intransitive verb
1 a : to spring back on collision or impact with another body rebound -- Current Biography> b : to recover from or react to a setback or frustration <rebounded less quickly from disappointment -- Ellen Glasgow> rebounded differently -- G.R.Stewart>
2 : to bound back as if upon impact : LEAP, SPRING rebound upward -- A.E.Benfield>
3 : REECHO rebounded from the mountains forty miles away -- Darrell Berrigan>
transitive verb
1 : to cause to spring back : RETURN
2 : to make resound : REECHO
synonyms REVERBERATE, RECOIL, RESILE, REPERCUSS: rebound indicates a resilient springing, bouncing, or hurtling back after or as if after some collision, impact, or other forcible contact rebounding from the wall> rebounding again from the scientific-classical pole to the poetic-romantic one -- Edmund Wilson> REVERBERATE is used of waves or rays that bound back or are forced back, reflected, or deflected; it is most typically used of sound and suggests loud reechoing reverberated between a series of low ridges, sounding like some giant's bowling ball -- F.V.W.Mason> reverberates like the solemn voice of judgment -- Green Peyton> reverberate in the mind -- Babette Deutsch> RECOIL applies to a springing or flying back, commonly in consequence of a release of pressure or stretching, to or against a point of origin, or in retreat, receding, or shrinking in apprehension or revulsion recoiling to its natural position> recoiled from the spectacle as if it were two loathsome for remark -- S.L.A.Marshall> RESILE may apply to a resilient but not abrupt drawing back to a former position resiling at the normal temperatures> resile to his former unattached position> REPERCUSS, now notably less common than the noun repercussion, implies the return of something moving ahead with or as if with great force back to or toward the starting point repercusses, as it were, on the organic disease -- F.W.Peabody>