rewind

verb

1. 1

   To wind (something) again.

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

   […] she was winding and rewinding bandages that were dripping in blood, smiling strangely at her as the plasma spilled from buckets all over the floor.

2. 2

   To wind back, of something clocklike or recordlike, like a cassette, tape, film; especially to then replay or relive.

   Let's rewind the clock to an earlier time.

   Rewind the tape to the first chapter.

3. 3

   figurativeTo regress the state of playback of a recording.

   I've rewound the audiobook to the start of the chapter.

   This video player can rewind smoothly.

4. 4

   figurativeTo go back or think back to a previous moment or place, or a previous point in a discourse.

   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"

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.

Forms

plural

rewinds

past tense

rewound

past participle

rewound

present participle

rewinding

third person singular

rewinds