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.

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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

Inflected Forms

noun

• reechoes
  plural

Etymology

Origin of reecho

First recorded in 1580–90; re- + echo

Example Sentences

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

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 McBrien, Jasper Leonidas

The woods reecho with their wild screams and the weird ululations of the battle cry.

From The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir by Garvan, John M.

V. resound, reverberate, reecho, resonate; ring, jingle, gingle†, chink, clink; tink†, tinkle; chime; gurgle &c.

From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Roget, Peter Mark

A fruitless struggle ensued, and at length, seeming to accommodate himself to circumstances, he set off at a sharp trot, his guards making the air reecho with their merry shouts.

From Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 3 by Sylvester, Charles Herbert