a. | 1. | Reverberant. |
2. | Driven back, as sound; reflected. | |
v. t. | 1. | To return or send back; to repel or drive back; to echo, as sound; to reflect, as light, as light or heat. |
2. | To send or force back; to repel from side to side; | |
3. | Hence, to fuse by reverberated heat. | |
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. |
Verb | 1. | reverberate - ring or echo with sound; "the hall resounded with laughter" |
2. | reverberate - have a long or continuing effect; "The discussions with my teacher reverberated throughout my adult life" | |
3. | reverberate - be reflected as heat, sound, or light or shock waves; "the waves reverberate as far away as the end of the building" | |
4. | reverberate - to throw or bend back or reflect (from a surface); "A mirror in the sun can reflect light into a person's eyes"; "Sound is reflected well in this auditorium" Synonyms: reflect | |
5. | reverberate - spring back; spring away from an impact; "The rubber ball bounced"; "These particles do not resile but they unite after they collide" | |
6. | reverberate - treat, process, heatl, metl, or refine in a reverberating furnace; "reverberate ore" |