Definition of "reduplicate" [re•du•pli•cate]

• To repeat over and again; redouble. (verb-transitive)
• Linguistics To double (the initial syllable or all of a root word) to produce an inflectional or derivational form. (verb-transitive)
• Linguistics To form (a new word) by doubling all or part of a word. (verb-transitive)
• To be doubled. (verb-intransitive)
• Doubled. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "At that point, it would be perfectly understandable that some dialects would adopt a new form like *ōl-ōl- or something similar simply because /l/ was the only consonant left to reduplicate."
• "As Baudrillard would have seen it, neither Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Ashcroft, Gonzalez or their cronies would have had to imitate or reduplicate or parody what they wanted to hide."
• "I won't try to reduplicate his work, but let me just throw one quote at you from Ian Fishback."