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Reverberating   /rɪvˈərbərˌeɪtɪŋ/  /rivˈərbərˌeɪtɪŋ/   Listen
Reverberating

adjective
1.
Characterized by resonance.  Synonyms: resonant, resonating, resounding, reverberative.  "Hear the rolling thunder"


Reverberate

verb
(past & past part. reverberated; pres. part. reverberating)
1.
Ring or echo with sound.  Synonyms: echo, resound, ring.
2.
Have a long or continuing effect.
3.
Be reflected as heat, sound, or light or shock waves.
4.
To throw or bend back (from a surface).  Synonym: reflect.
5.
Spring back; spring away from an impact.  Synonyms: bounce, bound, rebound, recoil, resile, ricochet, spring, take a hop.  "These particles do not resile but they unite after they collide"
6.
Treat, process, heat, melt, or refine in a reverberatory furnace.





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"Reverberating" Quotes from Famous Books



... simple sound; to the more experienced it is know to consist of endless and complicated harmonical vibrations; harmonizing with some, and making discord with other, notes by regular but unknown laws; differing according to the timbre of the emitter; reverberating under certain conditions; lost to the ear in others; and only responding to resonators vibrating ...
— Hints for Lovers • Arnold Haultain
... forth these two Standishes made one, and the train band escorted them to their home, and fired a salute of honor, whose reverberating waves rolling across the waters broke at last upon the foot of Captain's Hill, sighing away into silence over the quiet plain where one day should be dug a warrior's grave, marked head and foot with a ...
— Standish of Standish - A story of the Pilgrims • Jane G. Austin
... jostle, a rattle of other voices, as though some one had untied a bag of lively resonant voices, and they were falling out on the ground, by one and two, and whole heaps. It was the disciples talking. And drowning them all, reverberating from the trees and walls, and tripping up over itself, thundered the determined, powerful voice of Peter—he was swearing that never would he ...
— The Crushed Flower and Other Stories • Leonid Andreyev
... of himself. But ere he could move to execute his design a horseman was almost on top of him. He received a stunning blow on the head. The daylight faded in his eyes, he felt a sensation of sinking, and a reverberating darkness engulfed him. ...
— The Trampling of the Lilies • Rafael Sabatini
... An Irishman sitting angling on the brink with an alder pole and a clothes-line. At frequent intervals, the scene is suddenly broken by a loud report like thunder, rolling along the banks, echoing and reverberating afar. It is a blast of rocks. Along the margin, sometimes sticks of timber made fast, either separately or several together; stones of some size, varying the pebbles and sand; a clayey spot, where a shallow brook runs into the river, not with a deep outlet, ...
— Passages From The American Notebooks, Volume 1 • Nathaniel Hawthorne


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