verb
- Ring or echo with sound.
- usage: "the hall resounded with laughter"
- synonyms: resound, echo, ring, reverberate
- Have a long or continuing effect.
- usage: "The discussions with my teacher reverberated throughout my adult life"
- synonyms: reverberate
- Be reflected as heat, sound, or light or shock waves.
- usage: "the waves reverberate as far away as the end of the building"
- synonyms: reverberate
- To throw or bend back (from a surface. )
- usage: "Sound is reflected well in this auditorium"
- synonyms: reflect, reverberate
- Spring back; spring away from an impact.
- usage: "The rubber ball bounced"; "These particles do not resile but they unite after they collide"
- synonyms: bounce, resile, take a hop, spring, bound, rebound, recoil, reverberate, ricochet
- Treat, process, heat, melt, or refine in a reverberatory furnace.
- usage: "reverberate ore"
- synonyms: reverberate
adjective
- Characterized by resonance.
- usage: "a resonant voice"; "hear the rolling thunder"
- synonyms: resonant, resonating, resounding, reverberative
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