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Reverberate

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

verb-intransitive. To resound in a succession of echoes; reecho.

verb-intransitive. To have a prolonged or continuing effect: Those talks with his teacher reverberated throughout his life.

verb-intransitive. To be repeatedly reflected, as sound waves, heat, or light.

verb-intransitive. To be forced or driven back; recoil or rebound.

v. To reecho (a sound). See Synonyms at echo.

v. To reflect (heat or light) repeatedly.

v. To drive or force back; repel.

v. To subject (a metal, for example) to treatment in a reverberatory furnace.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

v. to ring with many echos

v. to have a lasting effect

v. to repeatedly return

v. to rebound or recoil

v. to shine or reflect (from a surface, etc.)

v. to shine or glow (on something) with reflected light

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Reverberant.

adj. Driven back, as sound; reflected.

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

v. To send or force back; to repel from side to side.

v. Hence, to fuse by reverberated heat.

verb-intransitive. To resound; to echo.

verb-intransitive. To be driven back; to be reflected or repelled, as rays of light; to be echoed, as sound.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

To beat back; repel; repulse.

To return, as sound; echo.

To turn back; drive back; bend back; reflect: as, to reverberate rays of light or heat.—

Specifically, to deflect (flame or heat) as in a reverberatory furnance.

To reduce by reverberated heat; fuse.

To beat upon; fall upon.

To be driven back or reflected, as light or heat.

To echo; reëcho; resound.

To apply reverberated heat; use reverberatory agency, as in the fusing of metals.

Synonyms Recoil, etc. See rebound.

Reverberated; cast back; returned; reflected.

Reverberant; causing reverberation.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

v. have a long or continuing effect

v. to throw or bend back (from a surface)

v. ring or echo with sound

v. treat, process, heat, melt, or refine in a reverberatory furnace

v. spring back; spring away from an impact

v. be reflected as heat, sound, or light or shock waves

Word Usage

"Words can cut and cleave a person in a way nothing else can - having a hateful word reverberate in your head for weeks can eat at the essence of your worth."

Verb Form

reverberated reverberates reverberating

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

diehard endure persist prevail run process treat reflect

Hyponym

mirror

Form

reverberated reverberating

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

reverberant reflected resound echo reflect