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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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