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resounded

[ree-sound] Origin

re-sound

[ree-sound]
verb (used without object), verb (used with object)
to sound again.

Origin:
1895–1900; re- + sound1

re-sound, resound.

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re·sound

[ri-zound]
verb (used without object)
1.
to echo or ring with sound, as a place.
2.
to make an echoing sound, or sound loudly, as a metallic object: A gong resounded.
3.
to ring or be echoed, as sounds.
4.
to be celebrated or notably important: His name resounds in the pages of history.
verb (used with object)
5.
to reecho (a sound).
6.
to give forth or utter loudly.
7.
to proclaim loudly (praise, disapproval, etc.).

Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English resounen < Middle French resoner < Latin resonāre, equivalent to re- re- + sonāre to sound1

1. rebound, redound, resound; 2. re-sound, resound.
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Word Origin & History

resound
late 14c., resownen, from O.Fr. resoner, from L. resonare "sound again, resound, echo," from re- "back, again" + sonare "to sound" (see sound (n.1)). Spelling influenced by sound.
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