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Reverberate   /rɪvˈərbərət/  /rɪvˈərbəreɪt/   Listen
Reverberate

verb
(past & past part. reverberated; pres. part. reverberating)
1.
Ring or echo with sound.  Synonyms: echo, resound, ring.
2.
Have a long or continuing effect.
3.
Be reflected as heat, sound, or light or shock waves.
4.
To throw or bend back (from a surface).  Synonym: reflect.
5.
Spring back; spring away from an impact.  Synonyms: bounce, bound, rebound, recoil, resile, ricochet, spring, take a hop.  "These particles do not resile but they unite after they collide"
6.
Treat, process, heat, melt, or refine in a reverberatory furnace.





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"Reverberate" Quotes from Famous Books



... of forgotten wars, Tumults of primal love and hate, Through crags of song reverberate. Held by the Singer of High State, Battalions ...
— Miscellany of Poetry - 1919 • Various
... the pulpit that rose gaunt and square above the deacons' pew, and over which hung the old sounding-board, as though to mock the voices, now for ever silent, that from time to time had been wont to reverberate from its panels, he began to wonder whether the message the Church called revelation was not, after all, as vain as 'laughter over wine'; and as he looked on the frowning galleries and the distant corners of the chapel, ...
— Lancashire Idylls (1898) • Marshall Mather
... reunion f. meeting. reunir to unite, reunite, combine, gather. revelar to reveal. revendedor m. retailer, huckster. reventar to burst, wear out. reverberante reverberating, reflecting. reverberar to reverberate, reflect. reverencia reverence. revestir to dress, clothe, cover. revolotear to flutter. revolver to turn upside down. rey king. rezar to pay, tell. rezo prayer. rico rich. riesgo risk. riguroso rigorous. rincon m. corner. rio river. riqueza ...
— Novelas Cortas • Pedro Antonio de Alarcon
... truck and the motor and trolley car and the elevated train They make the weary city street reverberate with pain: But there is yet an echo left deep down within my heart Of the music the Main Street cobblestones made ...
— Main Street and Other Poems • Alfred Joyce Kilmer
... and foster stagnation. Nevertheless the influence of environment must not be over-rated for we see that general contentment with resulting inertia have existed for untold ages in places where now the sounds and shocks of daily progress reverberate in a thousand fields of civilised activity without any change being discernible either in the bodily or mental calibre of the people themselves, and this must surely teach us that it is not incapacity nor yet unfavourable physical environment, but that, more than ...
— The Black Man's Place in South Africa • Peter Nielsen


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