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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

His intimates noticed that he would reecho a story--a simile or a tag--and so neatly apply it that it seemed fresh on the second use.

From The Lincoln Story Book A Judicious Collection of the Best Stories and Anecdotes of the Great President, Many Appearing Here for the First Time in Book Form by Henry Llewellyn Williams

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

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

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

How charming did these voices reecho through the room!

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

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

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

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

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

This declaration is echoed by Arnold, and reechoed by Barrows.

From Abraham Lincoln: Was He A Christian? by John B. Remsburg

And then the young woman found herself the darling of all the soldiers in the army, for word of her actions ran like wildfire through the ranks and cheers reechoed wherever she went.

From A Treasury of Heroes and Heroines A Record of High Endeavour and Strange Adventure from 500 B.C. to 1920 A.D. by Clayton Edwards

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

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

From The Black Arrow by Robert Louis Stevenson

And that voice went echoing and reechoing through Palestine, through all the earth from sea to sea; yes, that voice is echoing still, Hear Him!

From The world's great sermons, Volume 08 Talmage to Knox Little by Grenville Kleiser

Seemingly in response, the reechoing sound that had previously so startled the girls rang faintly through the cavern.

From Nan Sherwood at Rose Ranch by Annie Roe Carr

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