reverberate

UK /ɹɪˈvɜːbəˌɹeɪt/US /ɹəˈvɜɹbəˌɹeɪt/

verb 21
/ɹəˈvɜɹbəɹət/ adjective 2
forms 7

verb21

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To cause (a sound) to be (repeatedly) bounced against one or more surfaces; to re-echo.
- [S]oundes doe rise / By mens force vnder feete, vvounded vvith noyse / The hilles to heav'n reverberate their voyce. — 1603
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Of sound: to (repeatedly) bounce against one or more surfaces; to echo or re-echo, to resound.
- Sometimes as an echo thou [God] reverberatest pleasantly, now as a huntsman thou killest with arrows. — 1850
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Chiefly followed by to or with: of a place or thing: to ring or vibrate with many echoing sounds; to re-echo, to resound.
- The depths of its old forest reverberated to the echoing thunder, and many a stately tree stood scorched and blackening, to whose withered boughs spring would now return in vain. — 1834
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(figurative) Of a thing: to have lasting and often significant effects.
- The shock—the shout—the groan of war— / Reverberate along that vale, / More suited to the shepherd's tale: […] — 1813
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(figurative) Of information, news, etc.: to be spread widely through repetition.
- They vvait till something nevv comes out from others, examine its merits, and reject it, or make it reverberate throughout the rest of Europe. — 1759
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To repeatedly reflect (heat, light, or other radiation).
- It [the left ventricle of the heart] hath thicker VValls, more compacted fleshy Pillars, vvherevvith the heat is both more easily preserved and reverberated, and the blood more strongly driven. — 1662
Often followed by from: of heat or (less commonly) light: to be (repeatedly) reflected.
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Followed by on (to): to deflect or divert (flames, heat, etc.) on to something.
- Flame is reverberated in a furnace.
(rare) Of a thing: to be heated by having flames, hot gases, etc., deflected or passed over it.
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(no longer used) To heat (something) by deflecting flames on to, or passing flames over, it.
- Svb[tle]. […] I sent you of his faeces there, calcin'd. / Out of that calx, I'ha'vvonne the salt of Mercurie. / Mam[mon]. By pouring on your rectefied vvater? / Svb. Yes, and reuerberating in Athanor. — 1610
(no longer used) To deflect or divert flames, hot gases, etc., on or into something.
(no longer used, rare) Of a furnace, kiln, etc.: to heat up through the effect of flames, hot gases, etc., deflecting within it.
(no longer used) To heat something by deflecting flames on to, or passing flames over, it.
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(no longer used) To drive, force, or push (someone or something) back; to repel, to repulse.
- This banke is so necessary a defence for the Citie, that it serueth in steed of a strong vvall to repulse and reuerberate the violence of the furious vvaues of the Sea. — 1611
(no longer used) To send (something) back from where it came.
(no longer used) Of a thing: to (repeatedly) bounce against one or more surfaces, especially with a sound; to rebound, to recoil.
(no longer used) Followed by on or upon, or to: of a thing: to return and affect a person, their feelings, etc.; to recoil.
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(no longer used, rare) Followed by in and a reflexive pronoun: of a thing: to turn back on itself.
- A beam of light shone into the interior of a mirrored sphere would reverberate in itself.
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(no longer used) Of light or sound: to fall on or hit (a surface or other thing); also, to fill or spread throughout (a space or other thing).
- Hovv still your voice vvith prudent discipline / My Prentize ear doth oft reverberate; […] — 1608
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(no longer used) To shine on something, especially with reflected light.
- [Y]ou seem'd to reverberate upon me vvith the beams of the Sun, vvhich you knovv hath such a povverful influence, and indeed too great a stroke in this Country: […] — 1620
(no longer used, rare) To beat or hit (something) repeatedly.

reverberate

UK /ɹɪˈvɜːbəɹət/US /ɹəˈvɜɹbəɹət/

adjective2

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(rare) Ringing or vibrating with many echoing sounds; re-echoing, resounding, reverberating.
- I vvas that bright Face / Reflected by the Lake, in vvhich thy Race / Read mysticke lines; (vvhich skill Pithagoras / First taught to men, by a reuerberate glasse) — 1605
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Synonym of reverberant (“that tends to reverberate (“(repeatedly) bounce against one or more surfaces”) or has reverberated”); re-echoed.
- So vvith reuerberate shoutes our Globe shall ring, / The Musicks close being thus: God saue our King. — 1604

forms

reverberated · reverberating · reverberates · reverberateth · reverberatest · more reverberate · most reverberate