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Definition of Reverberate

1. Verb. Ring or echo with sound. "The woods reverberate with many kinds of birds "; "The hall resounded with laughter"

2. Verb. Have a long or continuing effect. "The discussions with my teacher reverberated throughout my adult life"

3. Verb. Be reflected as heat, sound, or light or shock waves. "The waves reverberate as far away as the end of the building"

4. Verb. To throw or bend back (from a surface). "Sound is reflected well in this auditorium"

5. Verb. Spring back; spring away from an impact. "These particles do not resile but they unite after they collide"

6. Verb. Treat, process, heat, melt, or refine in a reverberatory furnace. "Reverberate ore"

Definition of Reverberate

1. a. Reverberant.

2. v. t. To return or send back; to repel or drive back; to echo, as sound; to reflect, as light, as light or heat.

3. v. i. To resound; to echo.

Definition of Reverberate

1. Verb. (intransitive) to ring with many echos ¹

2. Verb. (intransitive) to have a lasting effect ¹

3. Verb. (intransitive) to repeatedly return ¹

4. Verb. (intransitive) to rebound or recoil ¹

5. Verb. (intransitive) to shine or reflect (''from'' a surface, etc.) ¹

6. Verb. (obsolete) to shine or glow (''on'' something) with reflected light ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Reverberate

1. [v -ATED, -ATING, -ATES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Reverberate

revenue stamp revenue stamps revenue tariff revenued revenuer revenuers revenues rever reverable reverb

reverbed reverberance reverberances reverberant reverberantly reverberate (current term) reverberated reverberates reverberating reverberating circuit

reverberatingly reverberation reverberations reverberative reverberator reverberatories reverberators reverberatory reverberatory furnace reverbing

Literary usage of Reverberate

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Poetry by Modern Poetry Association (1915)
"ET rhe reverberate Hills, by Edwin Oppenheim. Constable & Co., London. The poems in this little volume are not verse for verse's sake, but verse for the ..."

2. The Monthly Microscopical Journal: Transactions of the Royal Microscopical (1869)
"Echo will reverberate round the world, chased by its hollow pound, an empty answer, while Time gathers generations of the wisest. IV. ..."

3. The American Quarterly Register by American Education Society (1843)
"The first shot is fired ; and, be assured, the report will reverberate through every British colony in this Hemisphere, till the last vestige of the unholy ..."

4. New Mexico Mines and Minerals ...: Being an Epitome of the Early Mining by Fayette Alexander Jones (1904)
"... put and seconded was unanimously carried with a Stentorian shout coming from a thousand throats "I," making the very mountains reverberate with the Fig. ..."

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