Definitions for redoubts

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redoubts re·doubt

Spelling: [ri-dout]

IPA: /rɪˈdaʊt/

Redoubts is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 427 anagrams from letters in redoubts (bdeorstu).

Definitions for redoubts

noun

1. an isolated work forming a complete enclosure of any form, used to defend a prominent point.
2. an independent earthwork built within a permanent fortification to reinforce it.
3. Mount, an active volcano in S Alaska, on the Alaska Peninsula: highest peak in the Aleutian Range. 10,197 feet (3108 meters).

Origin of redoubts

1600-10; French redoute Italian ridotto Late Latin reductus a refuge, noun use of past participle of Latin redūcere to lead back; see reduce

Examples for redoubts

He and the troops then retreated across New Jersey to a winter redoubt.

Putnam showed him the redoubt, saying, "There you will be covered."

Griffith was elected to a North Alabama district in 2008 that had long been a Democratic redoubt in the midst of a deep red sea.

Meanwhile the British right center was held up by the redoubt.

Or does it want to remain a redoubt for a shrinking minority of older whites?

The Fuhrer may have fallen but his ideology persists in this redoubt of Nazism, untroubled by a sympathetic Argentine regime.

Howe disposed his forces in three columns, to attack the three faces of the redoubt.

For the men in the redoubt there were two more hours of waiting.

Even so, he will be calling many of the shots from his Middle East redoubt, a reality few dispute.

The redoubt itself was at the apex of a broad angle of trenches.