resound
Americanverb (used without object)
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resounds,
present (3rd person singular)
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resounded,
past participle, past
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resounding
present participle
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to echo or ring with sound, as a place.
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to make an echoing sound, or sound loudly, as a metallic object.
A gong resounded.
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to ring or be echoed, as sounds.
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to be celebrated or notably important.
His name resounds in the pages of history.
verb (used with object)
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resounds,
present (3rd person singular)
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resounded,
past participle, past
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resounding
present participle
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to reecho (a sound).
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to give forth or utter loudly.
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to proclaim loudly (praise, disapproval, etc.).
verb
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to ring or echo with sound; reverberate
the hall resounded with laughter
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to make a prolonged echoing noise
the trumpet resounded
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(of sounds) to echo or ring
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to be widely famous
his achievements resounded throughout India
Other Word Forms
Inflected Forms
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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resoundsimple
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resoundssimple
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have resoundedperfect
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has resoundedperfect
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am resoundingprogressive
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are resoundingprogressive
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is resoundingprogressive
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have been resoundingperfect progressive
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has been resoundingperfect progressive
Past
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resoundedsimple
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had resoundedperfect
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was resoundingprogressive
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were resoundingprogressive
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had been resoundingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of resound
1350–1400; Middle English resounen < Middle French resoner < Latin resonāre, equivalent to re- re- + sonāre to sound 1
Explanation
To resound is to echo with sounds, usually loudly. When you sing in the shower, your voice resounds. If you remember that re means again, then resounding makes a lot of sense: it's what happens when a sound rings out or echoes. A loud, booming voice is more likely to resound than a little whisper. If you stand on a building, yell your name, and then hear it again, it resounded. Resounding is also called echoing, ringing, and reverberating. If you've ever heard a ring announcer, the microphone helps his or her voice resound to the crowd.
Vocabulary lists containing resound
Power Prefix: re-
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Common Senses: Son ("Sound")
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As the remastered “Anthology TV” series and long-players so presciently remind us, it’s a collaboration that will resound through the ages.
From Salon ● Nov. 21, 2025
Veterans issues resound in Montana, which has the second-highest percentage of veterans in the U.S. among the adult civilian population, according to the U.S.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 19, 2023
Nearby, excavators resound as they demolish some of the 80-90% of buildings estimated to have suffered quake damage.
From Reuters ● May 9, 2023
Afeni Shakur’s voice would plant the seed for her son’s voice and his music, which cried out against injustice with lyrics that still resound worldwide.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 21, 2023
Footsteps resound and the door is opened by a large, bony gentleman.
From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
What he did at those Olympic Games 90 Augusts ago—and what it signified to a world on the verge of a global war that would cancel the Olympics until 1948—still resounds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
“The prose is magnificent, mature and breathtakingly precise, and the collection resounds with a sensitivity and wisdom rarely seen in a debut,” noted the judges.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 20, 2024
In Schubert’s song “Der Doppelgänger,” a piano resounds with increasingly tormented chords as the narrator recounts a realization: that a pained stranger, wringing his hands in the night, is in fact himself.
From New York Times ● Sep. 20, 2023
Part persuasive plea, part scathing screed, its clarion call for justice resounds through the centuries.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 24, 2023
The entire landscape resounds with Christ’s agitation, represented by the sweep of supernatural forces.
From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson
“It resounded in the minds and memories of literate people, as well as of those who acquired it only by listening.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 21, 2026
Applause resounded once more as the spacecraft successfully deployed.
From Barron's ● Nov. 13, 2025
It was a message that resounded with many voters.
From BBC ● May 3, 2025
A steady hum of generators resounded through the area, accompanied by the chirping of birds and the bustle of locals driving around in golf carts with water, pet food and other supplies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2024
To the billiard-room I hastened: the click of balls and the hum of voices resounded thence; Mr. Rochester, Miss Ingram, the two Misses Eshton, and their admirers, were all busied in the game.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
A game that began in a wall of sound, with Guardiola's name resounding around the stadium at kick-off, was reduced to stunned silence in the first 15 minutes.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026
Much of the year’s high points are due to the Wegovy pill, which has been a resounding success.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 2026
Mohammad Mokhber, an adviser to Iranian supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei, congratulated the Houthis on their "resounding victory" on Friday.
From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026
The JSerra Girls Flag Football team stretched its season-opening winning streak to eight straight games with a resounding 41-6 triumph over the Edison Chargers in a nonleague battle on Thursday at JSerra Catholic High School.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2026
“Get up! Get up!” she yelled again, yanking the torn blanket covering Florah and me, and almost instantly I awoke and heard a door shut with a resounding slam.
From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane
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