Resound
[rɪ'zaʊnd]
Definition
(verb.) ring or echo with sound; 'the hall resounded with laughter'.
Edited by Della--From WordNet
Definition
(v. i.) To sound loudly; as, his voice resounded far.
(v. i.) To be filled with sound; to ring; as, the woods resound with song.
(v. i.) To be echoed; to be sent back, as sound.
(v. i.) To be mentioned much and loudly.
(v. i.) To echo or reverberate; to be resonant; as, the earth resounded with his praise.
(v. t.) To throw back, or return, the sound of; to echo; to reverberate.
(v. t.) To praise or celebrate with the voice, or the sound of instruments; to extol with sounds; to spread the fame of.
(n.) Return of sound; echo.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Echo, re-echo, reverberate.
v. n. Echo, reverberate.
Checked by Carlton
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Ring, reverberate, echo, re-echo, respond
ANT:Whisper, murmur, breathe, mutter, {[hum]?}
Typist: Margery
Definition
v.t. to sound back: to echo: to praise or celebrate with sound: to spread the fame of.—v.i. to be sent back or echoed: to echo: to sound loudly: to be much mentioned.—ns. Resound′; Resound′er a monotelephone.
Typist: Robinson
Examples
- The whole place seemed to resound about them with a noise of hollow, empty futility. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Let greater echoes resound as they would, the young mother at the cradle side could always hear those coming. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Use the means at your command, and you can do this and cause a rejoicing that will resound from one end of the land to the other. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- One voice made of many voices, resounded through the chamber; it syllabled the name of Raymond. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- As he spoke, the man, puffing and blowing, rushed at our door and pulled at our bell until the whole house resounded with the clanging. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Now, said Herbert, as the growl resounded in the beam once more, he's down again on his back! Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- It was hard to realize that this silent plain had once resounded with martial music and trembled to the tramp of armed men. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The greater part of the lights were quickly put out, and nothing but noise and confusion resounded on all sides. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- I heard him, too, in the warm evenings, lecturing with open doors, and his name, with anecdotes of him, resounded in ones ears from all sides. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Every room and gallery of the house resounded with sobs and shrieks of despair. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Mr. Tulkinghorn, in repairing to his cellar and in opening and shutting those resounding doors, has to cross a little prison-like yard. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The very size of the great manufactory is impressive--sixteen acres of floor space, crowded with machinery and resounding with activity. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Such were the kind of lamentations resounding perpetually through Longbourn House. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- What could be happening, what was it, the great hammer-stroke resounding through the house? D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- But just at that moment a heavy object smote me a resounding whack between my shoulders that nearly felled me to the ground. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- He had hardly finished one long resounding knock, when he turned to the knocker again and began another. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- The threshing-floor still resounds to the flail as the grain is beaten from the heads of the stalks. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Yet noble sentiments are constantly recurring: the true note of Roman patriotism--'We Romans are a great people'--resounds through the whole work. Plato. The Republic.
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