OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 3231

rebound

/ɹiˈbaʊnd/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
rebote
The recoil of an object bouncing off another.
recuperación • reestablecimiento • restablecimiento
A return to health or well-being; a recovery.
I am on the rebound.
rebote
The strike of the ball after it has bounced off a defending player or the crossbar or goalpost.
The inevitable Baggies onslaught followed as substitute Simon Cox saw his strike excellently parried by keeper Bunn, with Cox heading the rebound down into the ground and agonising…
rebote
An instance of catching the ball after it has hit the rim or backboard without a basket being scored, generally credited to a particular player.
Word forms
📚 verb • entry_id 3232

rebound

/ɹiˈbaʊnd/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
rebotar • recudir • repercutir • resurtir
To bound or spring back from a force.
Bodies which are absolutely hard, or so soft as to be void of elasticity, will not rebound from one another.
Martin Kelly fired in a dangerous cross and the Hearts defender looked on in horror as the ball rebounded off him and into the net.
repuntar
To jump up or get back up again.
“Even after this utter devastation, most people in the Greenwood community, most African Americans in Tulsa said to themselves and to their larger community, ‘we shall not be moved…