Rewind

noun, verb

noun, verb ·2 syllables ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

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

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

Verb
  1. 1
    To wind (something) again. intransitive, transitive

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

  2. 2
    wind (up) again wordnet
  3. 3
    To wind (something) back, now especially of a cassette or a video tape, CD, DVD etc.; to go back on a video or audio recording. intransitive, transitive

    "If you need to reload film, the cassette can be rewound slightly by turning the hub located on one end of its spool."

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

    "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""

Example

More examples

"Tom pressed the rewind button on the VCR."

Etymology

From re- + wind.

Related phrases

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