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reverberate
Reverberate (verb) means to make a sound bounce off surfaces again and again, producing an echo.
verb
1
To make a sound bounce off surfaces again and again, producing an echo.
"It did not occur to him to be afraid of the vivid fork lightning or the loud thunder that reverberated down the valley."
— Moore Raymond, Smiley Roams the Road (1959)
"They sat about in black and shiny and flouncey clothing adorned with gimp and beads, eating great quantities of cake, drinking much tea in a stately manner and reverberating remarks."
— Herbert George Wells, Of Bladesover House, and My Mother; and the Constitution of Society (1908)
2
To direct flames or heat onto something else.
"Flame is reverberated in a furnace."
3
To heat something by directing flames onto it or passing them over it.
4
To bounce heat, light or other radiation back again and again.
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Etymology
Borrowed from Latin reverberātus, perfect passive participle of reverberō (“to rebound; to reflect; to repel”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), whence Middle French reverberer (French réverbérer) and Middle English reverberen (“to send back”)), from re- (prefix meaning ‘again’) and verberō (“to beat; to lash, whip”) (from verber (“rod; lash, whip”) + -ō (suffix forming regular first-conjugation verbs)).
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What is the meaning of reverberate?
"reverberate" (verb) means to make a sound bounce off surfaces again and again, producing an echo.
What is another word for reverberate?
Other words for "reverberate" include ricochet, resound, recoil, resile, reflect, bounce.
What are the different meanings of reverberate?
"reverberate" has 3 main meanings: 1. To make a sound bounce off surfaces again and again, producing an echo; 2. To direct flames or heat onto something else; 3. To heat something by directing flames onto it or passing them over it.
