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re·wind

rewind

 
pronunciation:
ri waInd
part of speech: verb
inflections: rewinds, rewinding, rewound
definition: When you wind something, you turn it around and around another thing. If you have a long cord, you will probably wind it around something in order to make it smaller and maybe put it away. When you rewind something, you wind it again, or you wind it back to some earlier position.
The cat pulled the whole ribbon loose, so I had to rewind it all.After my dad listens to one of his old tapes, he rewinds it to the beginning.