Reverberate Definition

rĭ-vûrbə-rāt
reverberated, reverberates, reverberating
verb
reverberated, reverberates, reverberating
To reecho or resound.
Webster's New World
To be filled with loud or echoing sound.
The theater reverberated with the speaker's voice.
American Heritage
To cause (a sound) to reecho.
Webster's New World
To deflect (heat, flame, etc.), as in a reverberatory furnace.
Webster's New World
To have a prolonged or continuing effect.
Those talks with his teacher reverberated throughout his life.
American Heritage
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adjective
Reverberated.
Webster's New World
Wiktionary
Driven back, as sound; reflected.
Wiktionary

Origin of Reverberate

  • Latin reverberāre reverberāt- to repel re- re- verberāre to beat (from verber whip wer-2 in Indo-European roots)

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin verbero (“to beat").

    From Wiktionary

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