| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| reverberate |
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| SYLLABICATION: | re·ver·ber·ate |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  r -vûr b -r t |
| VERB: | Inflected forms: re·ver·ber·at·ed, re·ver·ber·at·ing, re·ver·ber·ates
| | INTRANSITIVE VERB: | 1. To resound in a succession of echoes; reecho. 2. To have a prolonged or continuing effect: Those talks with his teacher reverberated throughout his life. 3. To be repeatedly reflected, as sound waves, heat, or light. 4. To be forced or driven back; recoil or rebound. | | TRANSITIVE VERB: | 1. To reecho (a sound). See synonyms at echo. 2. To reflect (heat or light) repeatedly. 3. To drive or force back; repel. 4. To subject (a metal, for example) to treatment in a reverberatory furnace. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Latin reverberre, reverbert-, to repel : re-, re- + verberre, to beat (from verber, whip; see wer-2 in Appendix I). | | OTHER FORMS: | re·verber·a·tor —NOUN
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