Reverberate Definition

rĭ-vûrbə-rāt
reverberated, reverberates, reverberating
verb
reverberated, reverberates, reverberating
To reecho or resound.
Webster's New World
To be filled with loud or echoing sound.
The theater reverberated with the speaker's voice.
American Heritage
To cause (a sound) to reecho.
Webster's New World
To deflect (heat, flame, etc.), as in a reverberatory furnace.
Webster's New World
To have a prolonged or continuing effect.
Those talks with his teacher reverberated throughout his life.
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adjective
Reverberated.
Webster's New World

Reverberant.

Wiktionary
Driven back, as sound; reflected.
Wiktionary

Origin of Reverberate

  • Latin reverberāre reverberāt- to repel re- re- verberāre to beat (from verber whip wer-2 in Indo-European roots)

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin verbero (“to beat").

    From Wiktionary

Reverberate Sentence Examples

  • The first shots had not yet ceased to reverberate before others rang out and yet more were heard mingling with and overtaking one another.

  • The Messianic prophecies of Isaiah, the prophet of faith and deliverance, were destined to reverberate through all subsequent centuries.

  • Such a development would reverberate far beyond Britain itself.

  • Words shatter on the edge of meaning, then reverberate into space.

  • Not only does this involve the crowd more, it will also cause the stands to reverberate, adding noise and excitement.

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RREREV

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ETEATE

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