rewind
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rewind
- /ɹiːˈwaɪnd/ UK
Rhymes with -aɪnd
verb rewinds · rewinding · rewound
- To wind (something) again. A Myrish crossbowman poked his head out a different window, got off a bolt, and ducked down to rewind.
- To wind back, of something clocklike or recordlike, like a cassette, tape, film; especially to then replay or relive. Let's rewind the clock to an earlier time.
- To regress the state of playback of a recording. I've rewound the audiobook to the start of the chapter.
- To 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"
noun rewinds
- The act of rewinding.
- A button or other mechanism for rewinding. I meant to pause the picture, but hit the rewind by mistake.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: rollback, regress, backtrack, retrogressive, backward, rewrite, back, reverse, retract, fallback, feel, backspace, rear, rew, wind back, unreverse
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verb to wind again
| Español | rebobinar |
|---|---|
| 日本語 | 巻き直す maki-naosu |
| 中文 | 重繞 /重绕 chóngrào |
| Português | rebobinar |
| Français | rembobiner |
| Deutsch | zurückspulen |
| Italiano | riavvolgere, rimbobinare |
| Русский | перема́тывать peremátyvatʹ, перемота́ть peremotátʹ |
| Tiếng Việt | quấn lại |
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title = {rewind},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
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urldate = {2026-11-06}
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