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Resounding   /risˈaʊndɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Resound  v. t.  
1.
To throw back, or return, the sound of; to echo; to reverberate.
2.
To praise or celebrate with the voice, or the sound of instruments; to extol with sounds; to spread the fame of. "The man for wisdom's various arts renowned, Long exercised in woes, O muse, resound."
Synonyms: To echo; reecho; reverberate; sound.


Resound  v. i.  (past & past part. resounded; pres. part. resounding)  
1.
To sound loudly; as, his voice resounded far.
2.
To be filled with sound; to ring; as, the woods resound with song.
3.
To be echoed; to be sent back, as sound. "Common fame... resounds back to them again."
4.
To be mentioned much and loudly.
5.
To echo or reverberate; to be resonant; as, the earth resounded with his praise.





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"Resounding" Quotes from Famous Books



... untied the painter from an old oak root, and sent the boat reeling backwards from its moorings. The sail flapped wildly in the breeze, which was now growing stronger, and the craft began to drift. Catching up the centre-board, lying near, the boy drove it down into its narrow groove with a resounding thud. Seizing the sheet-line with one hand, and squatting well astern he grasped the tiller with the other. Nobly the boat obeyed her little determined commander. The sail filled, she listed to the left and darted ...
— The Fourth Watch • H. A. Cody
... And the resounding shore, A voice of weeping heard, and loud lament; From haunted spring, and dale Edg'd with poplar pale The parting Genius is with sighing sent, With flowre-inwov'n tresses torn The Nimphs in twilight shade of ...
— The Poetical Works of John Milton • John Milton
... of Denmark proved well their hands; one heard many a shield resounding from the hurtling and from the sharp swords as well, many of which were wielded there. The battle-bold Saxons did scathe enow, but when the men of Burgundy pressed to the fight, by them was really a wide wound carved. Then down across the saddles the blood ...
— The Nibelungenlied • Unknown
... of our arrival was then resounding among the natives whom I saw in great numbers along its western shores. This lake, like all those we had previously seen, was surrounded by a ridge of red earth, rather higher than the adjacent plains, ...
— Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Vol 2 (of 2) • Thomas Mitchell
... again, before he had got half- way down the street; and the young priest laid the bundle of books on a door-step, while he dutifully rubbed the old gentleman's legs. The client of the Avvocato was waiting for him at the yard-gate, and kissed him on each cheek, with such a resounding smack, that I am afraid he had either a very bad case, or a scantily-furnished purse. The Tuscan, with a cigar in his mouth, went loitering off, carrying his hat in his hand that he might the better trail ...
— Pictures from Italy • Charles Dickens


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