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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
re-echo

1580s, from re- + echo (v.). Related: Re-echoed; re-echoing.

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re-echo

n. (alternative spelling of reecho English) vb. (alternative spelling of reecho English)

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re-echo

n. the echo of an echo

Usage examples of "re-echo".

Her mother had probably anticipated taking us in the fact, but when she came in she was obliged to re-echo our shouts of mirth.

I shrieked, I screamed, and the amphitheatre of rocks echoed and re-echoed my cries, and all the time the head of the elasmosaurus raised aloft to the full height of its neck, swayed about unsteadily, and its mouth silently struggled and twisted, as if in an attempt to form words, while its eyes looked at me now with wild fear and now with piteous intreaty.

Evelyn, a laughing cherub, a gamesome infant, without idea of pain or sorrow, would, shaking back his light curls from his eyes, make the halls re-echo with his merriment, and in a thousand artless ways attract our attention to his play.

Old Boy seemed well pleased at having made such a good stroke of business, and spun round on one foot like a teetotum, hallooing so loud that the wood re-echoed.

The cavalier reached for a pistolet and would have reined in, but the dying horse was now plunging forward, bit in his teeth, breath whistling, hooves thundering down the declivity and re-echoing from the trees.

Presently sandalled feet re-echoed outside, and the two guardsmen entered with a strongly built dark skinned man in the helmet and tunic of a charioteer, with a whip in his hand, and a small timid looking individual, typical of that class which, risen from the ranks of artizans, supplies righthand men for wealthy merchants and traders.

It is said that we have accomplished nothing, and this is re-echoed every morning by the proslavery press of England.

Little plans sketched on paper, strokes of a pen or of a brush, will be the first materialisations of what will at last obliterate every detail and atom of these re-echoing actualities that overwhelm us now.

Her mother had probably anticipated taking us in the fact, but when she came in she was obliged to re-echo our shouts of mirth.

In post chaises behind blue silken curtains to ride slowly up steep road, listening to the song of the postilion re-echoed by the mountains, along with the bells of goats and the muffled sound of a waterfall.

The sound of these chimes brought back to Nekhludoff's mind what he had read in the notes of the Decembrists [the Decembrists were a group who attempted, but failed, to put an end to absolutism in Russia at the time of the accession of Nicholas the First] about the way this sweet music repeated every hour re-echoes in the hearts of those imprisoned for life.

On the barren grounds of the Tower of the Stars, Lord Konnal read from a newly inscribed parchment, detailing Dalamar's crime in a voice that echoed and re-echoed from the empty stone towers of the city.

The nerve-fraying sound bounced off the walls of the narrow passage, echoing and re-echoing.

This is precisely the doctrine which the present despots of the earth are inculcating, & their friends here re-echoing.

He heard again his father’s bitter remembering: the Brenin Llwyd behind his mist over Coder and Llyn Mwyngil… The names re-echoed round his head, and he could not understand why they should.