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reverberate
[ verb ri-vur-buh-reyt; adjective ri-vur-ber-it ]
verb (used without object)
- to reecho or resound:
Her singing reverberated through the house.
- Physics. to be reflected many times, as sound waves from the walls of a confined space.
- to rebound or recoil.
- to be deflected, as flame in a reverberatory furnace.
verb (used with object)
- to echo back or reecho (sound).
- to cast back or reflect (light, heat, etc.).
- to subject to reflected heat, as in a reverberatory furnace.
adjective
reverberate
/ rɪˈvɜːbəˌreɪt /
verb
- intr to resound or re-echo
the explosion reverberated through the castle
- to reflect or be reflected many times
- intr to rebound or recoil
- intr (of the flame or heat in a reverberatory furnace) to be deflected onto the metal or ore on the hearth
- tr to heat, melt, or refine (a metal or ore) in a reverberatory furnace
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Derived Forms
- reverberˈation, noun
- reˈverberant, adjective
- reˈverberantly, adverb
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Other Words From
- re·ver·ber·a·tive [ri-, vur, -b, uh, -rey-tiv, -ber-, uh, -], adjective
- re·verber·ator noun
- unre·verber·ated adjective
- unre·verber·ating adjective
- unre·verber·ative adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of reverberate1
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Word History and Origins
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Example Sentences
The cartoons zing, whirr, and reverberate harmonically, making each entry a sort of duet.
If a goal is scored, the streets reverberate with cheers and honking horns.
The silhouettes seem to reverberate across the room, in a mildly hall-of-mirrors effect.
But the impact of the financial maneuvers that he made to save the company will reverberate for years.
Over the weekend this question started to reverberate throughout the media pundit class.
He uttered a long, loud yell, which seemed to reverberate up and down the lines for at least a mile.
Who should know so well as I that it is but a handloom compared to the great guns that reverberate through the age to come?
Then the sound would reverberate down the long expanse of ice, and go rolling away to the mountains far beyond.
Ennis, edging desperately closer and closer to the line of victims, felt the mighty response reverberate about him.
The ponderous steed of the widower thundered after, making the forest reverberate with the heavy fall of his hoofs.
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