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Reverberating   /rɪvˈərbərˌeɪtɪŋ/  /rivˈərbərˌeɪtɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Reverberate  v. t.  (past & past part. reverberated; pres. part. reverberating)  
1.
To return or send back; to repel or drive back; to echo, as sound; to reflect, as light, as light or heat. "Who, like an arch, reverberates The voice again."
2.
To send or force back; to repel from side to side; as, flame is reverberated in a furnace.
3.
Hence, to fuse by reverberated heat. (Obs.) "Reverberated into glass."


Reverberate  v. i.  
1.
To resound; to echo.
2.
To be driven back; to be reflected or repelled, as rays of light; to be echoed, as sound.





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"Reverberating" Quotes from Famous Books



... O my comrades, Whether your Catullus attain to farthest Ind, the long shore lash'd by reverberating Surges Eoan; Hyrcan or luxurious horde Arabian, 5 Sacan or grim Parthian arrow-bearer, Fields the rich Nile discolorates, a seven-fold River abounding; Whether o'er high Alps he afoot ascending Track the long records of a mighty Caesar, 10 Rhene, the Gauls' deep river, a lonely Britain ...
— The Poems and Fragments of Catullus • Catullus
... The reverberating tones of time echoed from nave to floor, through cloistered walls and columned aisles, noting the passing hour and ages, like billows of sound rolling over the graves of ...
— Shakspere, Personal Recollections • John A. Joyce
... oppression had produced a physical craving for air, and he strode on, opening his lungs to the reverberating coldness of the night. At the corner of Fifth Avenue Van Alstyne hailed him ...
— House of Mirth • Edith Wharton
... been more prudent not to have ascended the mountains during the night, and Michael would not have done so, had he been permitted to wait; but when, at the last stage, the iemschik drew his attention to a peal of thunder reverberating among the rocks, ...
— Michael Strogoff - or, The Courier of the Czar • Jules Verne
... it grew momentarily more evident that the stage thunder manufactured by that wretched galvanised iron cylinder had, in fact, served him far from ill; reverberating from wall to wall within the hollow of the block, its dozen echoes diverted pursuit to as many quarters, luring the limbs of the law every way but the right one. Nobody, it appeared, was alert enough to ...
— The Day of Days - An Extravaganza • Louis Joseph Vance


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