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/rɪvˈərbərət/ /rɪvˈərbəreɪt/ Listen

Reverberate

verb

(past & past part. reverberated; pres. part. reverberating)

Ring or echo with sound. Synonyms: echo, resound, ring.

Have a long or continuing effect.

Be reflected as heat, sound, or light or shock waves.

To throw or bend back (from a surface). Synonym: reflect.

Spring back; spring away from an impact. Synonyms: bounce, bound, rebound, recoil, resile, ricochet, spring, take a hop. "These particles do not resile but they unite after they collide"

Treat, process, heat, melt, or refine in a reverberatory furnace.

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"Reverberate" Quotes from Famous Books

... daughter-in-law, saluted her as "Lady Clackandow?" Then the torrent burst forth, and, stupefied with surprise, Lady Juliana suffered herself to be kissed and hugged by the whole host of aunts and nieces, while the very walls seemed to reverberate the shouts, and the pugs and mackaw, who never failed to take part in every commotion, began to bark and ...

— Marriage • Susan Edmonstone Ferrier

... no explosive has ever been invented that is so noisy in its effect, so furiously expansive in its action, as the fumes of cheap whiskey. The great dock-shed soon began to reverberate to the wildest clamor, which added to the fury of the crowd outside. The strikers, unable to enter the building, flowed down upon the adjoining wharf, or clambered to the roofs nearby, whence they jeered insultingly. ...

— The Silver Horde • Rex Beach

... desire is to keep the public mind turned in another direction. They are well aware that the ugly edifice is built of rotten timbers, and stands on slippery sands—if the loud voice of public opinion could be made to reverberate through its dreary chambers, the unsightly frame would fall, ...

— An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans • Lydia Maria Child

... houses, all in drear Confusion tossed from shore to shore, While mountains far, and forests near Reverberate the rising roar, When lashing rains among the hills To fury wake ...

— Horace • Theodore Martin

... the maiden's brow, And silence the bells disconsolate. Peal! Ye loud joy-bells, now; Over city and wold let your echoes reverberate. Peal! for the crowning of smiles and the death of tears, Peal! for the crowning of hopes and the death of fears, Peal! for a Queen who shall rule us for fifty years. The maiden is crowned with her glorious crown, Heavy with care; Yet it shall never burden her down Into despair. We will ...

— Fleurs de lys and other poems • Arthur Weir

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