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Reecho

Reecho \Re*["e]ch"o\, v. i. To give echoes; to return back, or be reverberated, as an echo; to resound; to be resonant.

And a loud groan re["e]choes from the main.
--Pope.

Reecho

Reecho \Re*["e]ch"o\ (r[=e]*[e^]k"[-o]), v. t. To echo back; to reverberate again; as, the hills re["e]cho the roar of cannon.

Reecho

Reecho \Re*["e]ch"o\, n. The echo of an echo; a repeated or second echo.

Wiktionary
reecho

alt. To reverberate n. A second or subsequent echo vb. To reverberate

WordNet
reecho
  1. v. echo repeatedly, echo again and again

  2. repeat or return an echo again or repeatedly; send (an echo) back

  3. repeat back like an echo

Usage examples of "reecho".

She struck a jagged jangle of notes on the gusly, hearing them echo and reecho round the candlelit shrine.

Shortly came a sound that threw the doe into a panic of terror,--a short, sharp yelp, followed by a prolonged howl, caught up and reechoed by other bayings along the mountain-side.

Sophia reechoed, not with prayers and hymns, but with the clamors and imprecations of an enraged multitude.

The complaint was reechoed to the palace, and the death of Zimisces is strongly marked with the suspicion of poison.

He was saluted with loud applause, and the proclamation was reechoed through the city by the joy of the Latins, and the trembling adulation of the Greeks.

During this peaceful conversation the streets of Aleppo streamed with blood, and reechoed with the cries of mothers and children, with the shrieks of violated virgins.

Such various and potent motives diffused among the Turks a general ardor, regardless of life and impatient for action: the camp reechoed with the Moslem shouts of "God is God: there is but one God, and Mahomet is the apostle of God.

Then, with a cry echoed and reechoed by the packed terraces, he struck one pillar after another.

What I hear is footsteps and echoes of footsteps and reechoes of footsteps.

He screams, and because it is without sound, unvoiced, it echoes and reechoes endlessly down the long, dark, lonely corridors of his mind.

The disquiet and consternation he had set up among the brothers would go on echoing and reechoing for some time, while he who had caused it had recoiled into numbness and exhaustion.

As she reached the stairs, she grabbed a handful of skirts and ran down to the hallway, the sound of her footsteps echoing and reechoing up into the rafters.

They were screeching now, their voices echoing and reechoing from the heights about.

The sound of their cutters was almost too high and too low to hear, drilling into my head, echoing and reechoing against the sound of half a thousand other cutters all through the underground.

With the echoing and reechoing of the stones and the rubble they knocked off on their way down, it was impossible to tell how deep the shaft was, but one thing was sure: it was no longer a little dimple.