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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
reverberate
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
around
▪ As the roars of approval reverberated around the ground he grinned an uncomfortable grin, almost one of embarrassment.
▪ Decisions there reverberated around the globe with a force unmatched anywhere else.
▪ The noise seemed to reverberate around the ship.
▪ And its impact is set to reverberate around theatreland for some time to come.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ At four o'clock the school bell goes, and the whole school reverberates with the sound of running feet and slamming doors.
▪ News of his resignation continues to reverberate in the media.
▪ The sound of a train passing reverberated through the house.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ It sheared through bone and muscle alike, the strident snapping of the femur reverberating inside the room.
▪ Sonar behaves differently because sounds reverberate off the sea floor.
▪ The first meeting between these strangers could easily produce a shock that reverberated throughout the marriage.
▪ The passageway outside was still reverberating from the crash when he started in on the door of the next apartment.
▪ The slightest movement caused them to twang and reverberate through the silent apartment.
▪ The sound of the blast reverberated around the world for nine days.
▪ Whatever censorship takes place in libraries, even of seemingly innocuous indecent material, can reverberate elsewhere.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Reverberate

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.

Reverberate

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.

Reverberate

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.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
reverberate

1570s, "beat back, drive back, force back," from Latin reverberatus, past participle of reverberare "strike back, repel, cause to rebound" (see reverberation). Meaning "re-echo" is from 1590s. Earlier verb was reverberen (early 15c.). Related: Reverberated; reverberating.

Wiktionary
reverberate
  1. 1 reverberant 2 Driven back, as sound; reflected. v

  2. 1 (context intransitive English) to ring with many echos 2 (context intransitive English) to have a lasting effect 3 (context intransitive English) to repeatedly return 4 To return or send back; to repel or drive back; to echo, as sound; to reflect, as light, as light or heat. 5 To send or force back; to repel from side to side. 6 To fuse by reverberated heat. 7 (context intransitive English) to rebound or recoil 8 (context intransitive English) to shine or reflect (''from'' a surface, et

  3. ) 9 (context obsolete English) to shine or glow (''on'' something) with reflected light

WordNet
reverberate
  1. v. ring or echo with sound; "the hall resounded with laughter" [syn: resound, echo, ring]

  2. have a long or continuing effect; "The discussions with my teacher reverberated throughout my adult life"

  3. be reflected as heat, sound, or light or shock waves; "the waves reverberate as far away as the end of the building"

  4. to throw or bend back or reflect (from a surface); "A mirror in the sun can reflect light into a person's eyes"; "Sound is reflected well in this auditorium" [syn: reflect]

  5. spring back; spring away from an impact; "The rubber ball bounced"; "These particles do not resile but they unite after they collide" [syn: bounce, resile, take a hop, spring, bound, rebound, recoil, ricochet]

  6. treat, process, heatl, metl, or refine in a reverberating furnace; "reverberate ore"

Usage examples of "reverberate".

Again that strange, glorious accent that reverberated through her like a warm, soothing caress.

It still reverberated, though Ilna had noticed that the acoustics of this great square room were wretchedly bad.

The drawling voice which answered filled the lobby, ascended to the green skylight far above, moved inexorably outward from the place of utterance to the balcony edges, thrust through the banisters to flow into the aisles of books, soaking each volume in turn so that the very bindings became redolent with that sound, not echoing but vibrating nonetheless in a reverberating hum larger than the building itself, a seeking pressure which left no corner unexplored.

Anborn shouting his name, the sound growing dimmer until in reverberated into nothingness.

As we sat on this fiery mount, surrounded by a circular rampart of rocks, and looked up at the immense towers of dark dolerite which ran up almost vertically to the height of twenty-five hundred feet above us, musing over the tremendous force which fashioned this awful amphitheatre--spacious enough for all the gods of Tartarus to hold high carnival--the clouds which hung in the thin air around the crest of the crater pealed forth thunder after thunder, which, reverberating from precipice to precipice, were answered by the crash of rocks let loose by the storm, till the whole mountain seemed to tremble like a leaf.

While the houses of parliament in England were yet echoing with the oratory of its empassioned members, the hillsides of America were reverberating with peals of musketry.

Anybody who wanted a hoagie for dinner would already be thronging across the street at the tent, and Anne made a beeline for it, as a drum solo thundered through the loudspeakers and reverberated in the night air.

Sculptured figures, all dusty gilt, clung for dear life as the old timepiece reverberated with tiny jangly explosions.

The spidery gray body of the Mnemonist stirred with the chemical echoes that reverberated through his old veins.

This time, so far from my being a solitary passenger, there was a considerable crowd waiting at Dover Street, where I entered, and just as the noise of the approaching train began to reverberate in the tunnel I caught sight of Sir Henry Payle standing near the opening from which the train would presently emerge, apart from the rest of the crowd.

Yuri stared for one petrified second then let loose a guttural roar of fright that reverberated round the impassive sentinel trees.

Long chill screams reverberated around the borders of the park, emerging from various archways at the base of the towers.

Their shrill, delighted laughter had reverberated through the trees as the mercenaries crashed through the undergrowth.

A deep, resonant series of sounds that fell on the ears and reverberated through her entire body.

A sibilant snarl reverberated through the room and he whirled full circle.