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reecho

or re-ech·o

[ree-ek-oh]
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verb (used without object), re·ech·oed, re·ech·o·ing.
  1. to echo back, as a sound.
  2. to give back an echo; resound.
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verb (used with object), re·ech·oed, re·ech·o·ing.
  1. to echo back.
  2. to repeat like an echo.
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noun, plural re·ech·oes.
  1. a repeated echo.
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Origin of reecho

First recorded in 1580–90; re- + echo
Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2018

Related Words for reecho

respond, imitate, mirror, second, impersonate, resound, ring, ape, vibrate, reiterate, repeat, rebound, react, reverberate, parallel, reflect, ditto, parrot, resemble, recall

Examples from the Web for reecho

Historical Examples of reecho

  • It seemed to echo and reecho for a long time before I shut it off.

    A Question of Courage

    Jesse Franklin Bone

  • And the whole bar and the audience seemed to reecho the words.

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

    Elsie's Womanhood

    Martha Finley

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

  • This will soar out and reecho at all hours; sometimes a memory of Elsa, and again a thought of Sieglinde.

    Stars of the Opera

    Mabel Wagnalls