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Reverberating   /rɪvˈərbərˌeɪtɪŋ/  /rivˈərbərˌeɪtɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Reverberate  v. t.  (past & past part. reverberated; pres. part. reverberating)  
1.
To return or send back; to repel or drive back; to echo, as sound; to reflect, as light, as light or heat. "Who, like an arch, reverberates The voice again."
2.
To send or force back; to repel from side to side; as, flame is reverberated in a furnace.
3.
Hence, to fuse by reverberated heat. (Obs.) "Reverberated into glass."


Reverberate  v. i.  
1.
To resound; to echo.
2.
To be driven back; to be reflected or repelled, as rays of light; to be echoed, as sound.





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"Reverberating" Quotes from Famous Books



... that fearsome cry were still reverberating through the subterranean chambers when I saw the thing that had startled it from the ...
— Warlord of Mars • Edgar Rice Burroughs
... ascension robes, they watched and waited, with ears alert, to hear the sound of Gabriel's trumpet, summoning the quick, and the dead to the general judgment. But not a blast from the archangel's ram's horn was heard reverberating along the skies, no Lord appeared descending upon the clouds to meet the elect in the air, and, in the last act of the fearful drama of "judgment day," the curtain refused to be rung down upon ...
— Astral Worship • J. H. Hill
... the morning, and when the canto was over, Vernon took a great stone and rolled it for amusement over the cliff's edge. It thundered over the side, bounding down till it reached the strand, and a large black cormorant, startled by the reverberating echoes, rose up suddenly, and flapped its way with protruded neck to a rock on the farther ...
— Eric, or Little by Little • Frederic W. Farrar
... voice reverberating from the walls of the corridor. "You betrayed me and killed my wife! Now the time has come for you to pay ...
— Rebels of the Red Planet • Charles Louis Fontenay
... and after some difficulty lighting one against the side of another, he re-lit the lamp. While at this, voices continued to come up to him, evidently shouting something. But try as he could he was unable to make out what was said. It was all a reverberating clamor, as though a hundred people ...
— The Young Railroaders - Tales of Adventure and Ingenuity • Francis Lovell Coombs


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