What is the meaning of reverberating?

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"
  • 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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APAWordNet. (2010). reverberating. Retrieved September 20, 2026, from http://smartdefine.org/reverberating/definitions/1182350
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