Reverberate
[rɪ'vɜːbəreɪt] or [rɪ'vɝbə'ret]
Definition
(verb.) treat, process, heat, melt, or refine in a reverberatory furnace; 'reverberate ore'.
(verb.) be reflected as heat, sound, or light or shock waves; 'the waves reverberate as far away as the end of the building'.
(verb.) have a long or continuing effect; 'The discussions with my teacher reverberated throughout my adult life'.
Checked by Barry--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Reverberant.
(a.) Driven back, as sound; reflected.
(v. t.) To return or send back; to repel or drive back; to echo, as sound; to reflect, as light, as light or heat.
(v. t.) To send or force back; to repel from side to side; as, flame is reverberated in a furnace.
(v. t.) Hence, to fuse by reverberated heat.
(v. i.) To resound; to echo.
(v. i.) To be driven back; to be reflected or repelled, as rays of light; to be echoed, as sound.
Edited by Charlene
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Echo, re-echo.
v. n. Resound, echo, re-echo.
Typed by Gladys
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Echo, recoil, reflect, revert, resound
ANT:Strike, impinge, beat
Checker: Scott
Definition
v.t. to send back echo: to reflect: to drive from side to side: to fuse.—v.i. to echo: to resound: to bound back: to be repelled: to use heat as in the fusion of metals.—v.t. Reverb′ (Shak.).—adj. Rever′berant resounding beating back.—n. Reverberā′tion the reflection of sound &c.—adj. Rever′berātive.—n. Rever′berātor.—adj. Rever′berātory.—Reverberatory furnace a furnace in which the flame is reflected on the substance to be burned.
Typist: Rosa
Examples
- An instant later steps crept down the passage--steps which were meant to be silent, but which reverberated harshly through the empty house. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Another and another followed in quick succession until the jungle reverberated with the now almost ceaseless notes of their bloodthirsty screams. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- A hum of shrill voices reverberated against the low ceiling, leaving Lily shut out in a little circle of silence. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Thunderlike it reverberated through the sky, while the air was darkened. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The moral oppression had produced a physical craving for air, and he strode on, opening his lungs to the reverberating coldness of the night. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- My only answer was my own voice reverberating in a rolling echo from the cliffs around me. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- It was a sombre snowy afternoon, and the gas-lamps were lit in the big reverberating station. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- He later enclosed some fragments of whinstone in a black-lead crucible and subjected it to intense heat in the reverberating furnace of an iron foundry. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Then an alarm gun bellowed from a ship's bow, its deep boom reverberating in deafening tones beneath the rocky dome of Omean. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
Typist: Serena