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# rebound

«rebound» in Mova's school dictionary: **To bounce back after hitting something: "The ball…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (rebound, rebounds, rebounded, rebounding); noun (a rebound, rebounds)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To bounce back after hitting something: "The ball rebounded off the wall." [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rebound/#m1)

2) In basketball, a rebound is catching the ball after a missed shot. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rebound/#m2)

3) To go back up after going down: "Prices rebounded." [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rebound/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In PE and sport, the ball rebounds off the wall, the post or the backboard; in basketball, players try to win the rebound. In science, rebound is linked to forces and bouncing. Phrases: on the rebound, rebound off, get the rebound.

### examples

- The ball rebounded off the goalpost. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rebound/#x1)
- She scored on the rebound. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rebound/#x2)
- He jumped high to get the rebound. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rebound/#x3)
- The tennis ball rebounds off the wall. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rebound/#x4)
- A rubber ball rebounds higher than a clay ball. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rebound/#x5)
- Sales rebounded after the summer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rebound/#x6)
- Watch out for the ball when it rebounds. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rebound/#x7)
- The bullet rebounded without harming the spinner, who still spun on. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rebound/#x8)

### note

Regular verb: rebound, rebounded. Stress: the verb is "re-BOUND", the noun is "REE-bound". "Re-" means back or again. In science, a ball rebounds because it squashes and springs back; a softer ball rebounds less high.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «rebound» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rebound/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.