Reverberate \Re*ver"ber*ate\, a. [L. reverberatus, p. p. of
reverberare to strike back, repel; pref. re- re- + verberare
to lash, whip, beat, fr. verber a lash, whip, rod.]
1. Reverberant. [Obs.] "The reverberate hills." --Shak.
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2. Driven back, as sound; reflected. [Obs.] --Drayton.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Reverberate \Re*ver"ber*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Reverberated; p. pr. & vb. n. Reverberating.]
1. To return or send back; to repel or drive back; to echo,
as sound; to reflect, as light, as light or heat.
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Who, like an arch, reverberates
The voice again. --Shak.
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2. To send or force back; to repel from side to side; as,
flame is reverberated in a furnace.
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3. Hence, to fuse by reverberated heat. [Obs.] "Reverberated
into glass." --Sir T. Browne.
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Reverberate \Re*ver"ber*ate\, v. i.
1. To resound; to echo.
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2. To be driven back; to be reflected or repelled, as rays of
light; to be echoed, as sound.
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reverberate
v 1: ring or echo with sound; "the hall resounded with laughter"
[syn: resound, echo, ring]
2: have a long or continuing effect; "The discussions with my
teacher reverberated throughout my adult life"
3: be reflected as heat, sound, or light or shock waves; "the
waves reverberate as far away as the end of the building"
4: to throw or bend back or reflect (from a surface); "A mirror
in the sun can reflect light into a person's eyes"; "Sound
is reflected well in this auditorium" [syn: reflect]
5: spring back; spring away from an impact; "The rubber ball
bounced"; "These particles do not resile but they unite
after they collide" [syn: bounce, resile, take a hop,
spring, bound, rebound, recoil, ricochet]
6: treat, process, heatl, metl, or refine in a reverberating
furnace; "reverberate ore"
WordNet (r) 2.0
44 Moby Thesaurus words for "reverberate":
acknowledge, answer, answer back, be reflected, be sent back, boom,
bounce back, come again, come back, come back at, come up again,
echo, echo back, flash back, give acknowledgment, give answer,
go back, keep coming, react, reappear, rebound, recur, reecho,
rejoin, reoccur, repeat, reply, resound, respond, resume, retort,
return, return answer, return for answer, revert, riposte, roll,
rumble, say, say in reply, send back, shoot back, sound,
talk back
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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