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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.

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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

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 Dickinson, Austin

The tiny monosyllable seemed to echo and reecho through the high-ceiled room.

From Little Lost Sister by Brooks, Virginia

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

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

How charming did these voices reecho through the room!

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

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

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 Baggs, Charles Michael

His voice was like thunder, with reechoes for accents.

From The Adventures of My Cousin Smooth by Templeton, Timothy

Harmony reechoes harmony; and with this glorious ode of jubilation the act comes to an end.

From Vondel's Lucifer by Vondel, Joost van den

Every name commemorates a mystery,—every grotto announces a prediction,—every hill reechoes the accents of a prophet.

From Palestine or the Holy Land From the Earliest Period to the Present Time by Russell, Michael

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

When the cymbals and kettledrums reechoed through all the courts, they deafened the ear.

From The Chinese Fairy Book by Wilhelm, Richard

Washington praised her highly and before a large number of his officers and men, and more cheering reechoed through the ranks when he gave her the brevet rank of Captain in the American Army.

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

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

That was an autumn of burning political conditions, and the excited slavery debates in the North were reechoing through the Virginia mountains.

From The Battle Ground by Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson

Ah! the applause, that sound like hail reechoing so delightfully through the lobbies, the house, and the side scenes, once the sweets of it are tasted, it is impossible to live without it.

From Artists' Wives by Ensor, Laura

The tone was made metallic by echoing and reechoing in the bends of the Tube, but it was Smithers.

From The Fifth-Dimension Tube by Leinster, Murray

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