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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

Then back went Lad's head in a pealing bark that seemed to fill the world and to reecho from a myriad directions at once.

From Further Adventures of Lad by Albert Payson Terhune

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

From A Question of Courage by Virgil Finlay

Victorious, I will sing songs which the whole world will reecho; fallen under your blows, my only thought shall be to rise again and rush into battle.

From Savva and the Life of Man Two plays by Leonid Andreyev by Thomas Seltzer

Did the heavenly host descend in rapture, and cause the mountains of Judea to reecho with their acclamations, because a dependent creature had consented to do his Maker's will?

From The National Preacher, Vol. 2 No. 7 Dec. 1827 Or Original Monthly Sermons from Living Ministers, Sermons XXVI. and XXVII. by Austin Dickinson

Optima dies … prima fugit; the note echoes and reechoes through English poetry.

From The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years by Elizabeth Atkins

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

From The Century of Columbus by James J. Walsh

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

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

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

I sprang full two feet from the floor, as I discovered the treasure, and my companions echoed and reechoed my shout of delight.

From Cora and The Doctor or Revelations of A Physician's Wife by Madeline Leslie

With a triumphant yell that echoed and reechoed through the gorge, he sprang to his feet.

From Hidden Gold by Wilder Anthony

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

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

It might be said that her head was surrounded by her first husband's halo of glory, his name reechoing around her like a homage or a reproach.

From The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VIII (of X) - Continental Europe II. by Henry Cabot Lodge

And then the laughter was repeated loudly, rising and reechoing from different thickets.

From The Black Arrow by Robert Louis Stevenson

A false ring somewhere in Ernest's words, reechoing with an ever-increasing volume of sound, stifled the voice of love.

From The House of the Vampire by George Sylvester Viereck

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