verb
- Ring or echo with sound.
- usage: "the hall resounded with laughter"
- Have a long or continuing effect.
- usage: "The discussions with my teacher reverberated throughout my adult life"
- Be reflected as heat, sound, or light or shock waves.
- usage: "the waves reverberate as far away as the end of the building"
- To throw or bend back (from a surface. )
- usage: "Sound is reflected well in this auditorium"
- synonyms: reflect
- Spring back; spring away from an impact.
- usage: "The rubber ball bounced"; "These particles do not resile but they unite after they collide"
- Treat, process, heat, melt, or refine in a reverberatory furnace.
- usage: "reverberate ore"
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