reverberate

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verb (used without object)

to reecho or resound: Her singing reverberated through the house.

Physics. to be reflected many times, as sound waves from the walls of a confined space.

to rebound or recoil.

to be deflected, as flame in a reverberatory furnace.

verb (used with object)

to echo back or reecho (sound).

to cast back or reflect (light, heat, etc.).

to subject to reflected heat, as in a reverberatory furnace.

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adjective

reverberant.

Origin:
1540–50; < Latin reverberātus (past participle of reverberāre to strike back). See reverberant, -ate¹

Related forms

re·ver·ber·a·tive

[ri-vur-buh-rey-tiv, -ber-uh-] , adjective

re·ver·ber·a·tor, noun

un·re·ver·ber·at·ed, adjective

un·re·ver·ber·at·ing, adjective

un·re·ver·ber·a·tive, adjective

Synonyms
1. carry, ring, rebound, vibrate.

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reverberate (rɪˈvɜːbəˌreɪt)

—vb
1.	(intr) to resound or re-echo: the explosion reverberated through the castle
2.	to reflect or be reflected many times
3.	(intr) to rebound or recoil
4.	(intr) (of the flame or heat in a reverberatory furnace) to be deflected onto the metal or ore on the hearth
5.	(tr) to heat, melt, or refine (a metal or ore) in a reverberatory furnace

[C16: from Latin reverberāre to strike back, from re- + verberāre to beat, from verber a lash]

re'verberant

—*adj*

re'verberative

—*adj*

re'verberantly

—*adv*

reverber'ation

—n

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Example sentences

We're hoping the discussion will reverberate and expand.

All it's going to do is reverberate around the office that so and so made a

mistake and so and so is angry at them.

Suicides reverberate through close-knit communities and continue to affect

survivors many years after the actual incident.

Written in the sixteenth century these lines reverberate in the context of

twentieth century carnage.

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"One of the most important things, to my mind, in English style is word-order. For us, the most emphatic place in a clause or sentence is the end. This is the climax; and, during the momentary pause that follows, that last word continues, as it were, to reverberate in the reader's mind. It has, in fact, the last word. One should therefore think twice about what one puts at a sentence-end. But in a German sentence this final position may be reserved, by a most curious grammatical convention, for an infinitive or past participle; or, in a subordinate clause, for the main verb. Thus logical emphasis, unless particularly strong, tends to be sacrificed to mere grammar."

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