rewind /ɹiːˈwaɪnd/verb 4noun 2forms 3 verb4 •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. •To 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. •(figurative) To 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" — 2014 •To wind (something) again.A Myrish crossbowman poked his head out a different window, got off a bolt, and ducked down to rewind. — 2000 noun2 •The act of rewinding. •A button or other mechanism for rewinding.I meant to pause the picture, but hit the rewind by mistake. formsrewound · rewinding · rewinds
