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

plural

reechoes

1. a repeated echo.

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

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

From The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. I by Lever, Charles James

I shall gain fame, and glory, and honors; my name shall become a household word throughout all Europe; it shall reecho in every cabinet; every minister shall have recourse to me, and—hark!

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

He tells him to take it to Kilauea--that it may reecho, doubtless, from the walls of the crater.

From Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula by Emerson, Nathaniel Bright

But when his Waltari had bravely conquered all dangers and deathly wounds,--then, he gave a shout of delight which made the stalactite walls of his cavern, reecho.

From Ekkehard. Vol. II (of II). A Tale of the Tenth Century by Scheffel, Joseph Victor von