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reverberate


  4  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  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. 
 
  Who  like  an  arch,  reverberates  The  voice  again 
  --Shak. 
 
  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.''  --Sir  T.  Browne. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Reverberate  \Re*ver"ber*ate\,  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. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  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. 
 
  2.  Driven  back  as  sound;  reflected.  [Obs.]  --Drayton. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  reverberate 
  v  :  ring  or  echo  with  sound;  reverberate;  "the  hall  resounded 
  with  laughter"  [syn:  {resound},  {echo},  {ring}] 




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