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reecho

American  
[ree-ek-oh] / riˈɛk oʊ /
Or re-echo

verb (used without object)

reechoed, reechoing
  1. to echo back, as a sound.

  2. to give back an echo; resound.


verb (used with object)

reechoed, reechoing
  1. to echo back.

  2. to repeat like an echo.

noun

  • reechoes
    plural
  1. a repeated echo.

Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms


Etymology

Origin of reecho

First recorded in 1580–90; re- + echo


Example Sentences

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Deep in them we can hear subterranean rivers rushing off through the netherworld, and our voices echo and reecho through the halls.

From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George

"I am sure I can echo and reecho your words," he answered, folding the child to his heart.

From Elsie's Womanhood by Martha Finley

It was a load that would echo and reecho in the hills.

From O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921 by Edison Marshall

Poets are sweetest when they reecho its whisperings; orators are most potent when they thrill its chords to music.

From America First Patriotic Readings by Jasper Leonidas McBrien

The whole building, in a pandemonium of hellish glee, seemed to echo and reecho the shout.

From The Further Adventures of Jimmie Dale by Frank L. (Frank Lucius) Packard

This song reechoes in my soul like a melancholy foreboding, and clings to its wings as if it wanted to paralyze their flight.

From Louisa of Prussia and Her Times by L. (Luise) Mühlbach

He reechoes Chaucer's picture of the village parson who "did as well as taught."

From The Century of Columbus by James J. Walsh

Harmony reechoes harmony; and with this glorious ode of jubilation the act comes to an end.

From Vondel's Lucifer by Joost van den Vondel

Shame, say I; and I am certain every one of your hearts, Gentlemen of the Jury, reechoes my indignant feeling!

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 563, August 25, 1832 by Various

The choir reechoes it each time, singing it in contrapunto, and then chants the verse Confitemini, and the tract, which is ordinarily recited in penitential times.

From The Ceremonies of the Holy-Week at Rome by Charles Michael Baggs

Kanu’s trial reechoed allegations of marginalization in Nigeria’s southeast region made up of the Igbos, Nigeria’s third-largest ethnic group who are mainly Christians.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 13, 2022

Flowers rained down and shouts of "bravo" reechoed.

From Time Magazine Archive

As he spoke, his voice echoed and re-echoed and reechoed again, mixing its sound with the buzz of activity all around them.

From "The Phantom Tollbooth" by Norton Juster

But withal that he reechoed the sentiments of Harry.

From The Wonder Island Boys: Conquest of the Savages by Roger Thompson Finlay

The woods and hilltops reechoed to ax blows, as great trees were felled for ship timber.

From Superwomen by Albert Payson Terhune

From a fireside circle on a hilltop, owners get a vicarious thrill recognizing the voices of their beloved hounds echoing and reechoing, as they cry the fox in the dark distance.

From Time Magazine Archive

One of the stories reechoing through the Scripps-Howard city rooms was of the time when Howard was among the guests of honor at a Washington dinner for successful ex-Indianans.

From Time Magazine Archive

How she listened at first to the sonorous lamentations of its romantic melancholies reechoing through the world and eternity!

From Madame Bovary by Eleanor Marx Aveling

From the Yser Canal down to the end of the French line the Allies' guns took up the note, and soon the whole of the allied line was thundering and reechoing with the infernal racket.

From The Story of the Great War, Volume IV (of 8) Champagne, Artois, Grodno; Fall of Nish; Caucasus; Mesopotamia; Development of Air Strategy; United States and the War by Francis Trevelyan Miller

The cruel phrase filled his brain, reechoing and reverberating there.

From Captain Blood by Rafael Sabatini

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