reverberate

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

REVERB'ERATE, verb transitive [Latin reverbero; re and verbero, to beat.] 1. To return, as sound; to send back; to echo; as, an arch reverberates the voice. 2. To send or beat back; to repel; to reflect; as, to reverberate rays of light 3. To send or drive back; to repel from side to side; as flame reverberated in a furnace. REVERB'ERATE, verb intransitive 1. To be driven back; to be repelled, as rays of light, or sound. 2. To resound. And even at hand, a drum is ready brac'd, that shall reverberate all as well as thine. REVERB'ERATE, adjective Reverberant.
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