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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

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

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

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

From A Question of Courage by Finlay, Virgil

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

Oh, may the humble followers of the lowly Nazarene echo and reecho this invitation of love among the haunts of men as long as time shall last!

From Food for the Lambs; or, Helps for Young Christians by Orr, Charles Ebert

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

From The Century of Columbus by Walsh, James J.

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

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

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 Mühlbach, L. (Luise)

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

"Cain, Cain," reechoed the tiles on the roofs.

From Klytia A Story of Heidelberg Castle by Hausrath, Adolf

During that night, shortly after twelve o'clock, the boys heard the most peculiar noises, like a doleful, continuous cry, echoed and reechoed from hill top.

From The Wonder Island Boys: Adventures on Strange Islands by Finlay, Roger Thompson

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

The shores of the bay took up the sound and sent it echoing and reechoing through the forest.

From Lost in the Air by Snell, Roy J. (Roy Judson)

The wind rushed past, blew out the candle, and behind her the other door, which she 93 had left ajar, banged heavily, echoing and reechoing through the empty house.

From The Girls of Hillcrest Farm The Secret of the Rocks by Marlowe, Amy Bell

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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