reverberate

Meaning

Verb

1. (transitive) To cause (a sound) to be (repeatedly) bounced against one or more surfaces; to re-echo.
2. (transitive) Followed by on (to): to deflect or divert (flames, heat, etc.) on to something.
3. (archaic, transitive) To heat (something) by deflecting flames on to, or passing flames over, it.
4. (transitive) To repeatedly reflect (heat, light, or other radiation).
5. (obsolete, transitive) To drive, force, or push (someone or something) back; to repel, to repulse.
6. (obsolete, transitive) To send (something) back from where it came.
7. (obsolete, transitive) Of light or sound: to fall on or hit (a surface or other thing); also, to fill or spread throughout (a space or other thing).
8. (obsolete, rare, transitive) To beat or hit (something) repeatedly.
9. (intransitive) Of sound: to (repeatedly) bounce against one or more surfaces; to echo or re-echo, to resound.
10. (intransitive) Chiefly followed by to or with: of a place or thing: to ring or vibrate with many echoing sounds; to re-echo, to resound.
11. (intransitive) Often followed by from: of heat or (less commonly) light: to be (repeatedly) reflected.
12. (figuratively, intransitive) Of information, news, etc.: to be spread widely through repetition.
13. (figuratively, intransitive) Of a thing: to have lasting and often significant effects.
14. (intransitive, rare) Of a thing: to be heated by having flames, hot gases, etc., deflected or passed over it.
15. (intransitive, obsolete) To deflect or divert flames, hot gases, etc., on or into something.
16. (intransitive, obsolete) To shine on something, especially with reflected light.
17. (intransitive, obsolete) Of a thing: to (repeatedly) bounce against one or more surfaces, especially with a sound; to rebound, to recoil.
18. (intransitive, obsolete) Followed by on or upon, or to: of a thing: to return and affect a person, their feelings, etc.; to recoil.
19. (intransitive, obsolete, rare) Followed by in and a reflexive pronoun: of a thing: to turn back on itself.
20. (intransitive, obsolete, rare) Of a furnace, kiln, etc.: to heat up through the effect of flames, hot gases, etc., deflecting within it.
21. (intransitive, obsolete) To heat something by deflecting flames on to, or passing flames over, it.

Adj

1. Synonym of reverberant (“that tends to reverberate (“(repeatedly) bounce against one or more surfaces”) or has reverberated”); re-echoed.
2. (rare) Ringing or vibrating with many echoing sounds; re-echoing, resounding, reverberating.

Synonyms

echo

resound

resonate

ring

💍

reflect

re-echo

bounce

recoil

roar

spring

sound

🔉

vibrate

boom

💥

reecho

bound

rebound

resile

ricochet

thunder

🌩️

take a hop

buzz

roaringly

loudly

ring out

rumble

scuttle

sigh

skitter

soak

sonorously

ting

whir

whisper

back kick

backswing

be reflected

recuile

re echo

impact of recoil

be heard

return shock

blare

clang

clink

contrive

dart

🎯

drone

glare

heat up

hum

Translations

reverberar

riverberare

réverbérer

reverberar

reflektieren

widerhallen

risuonare

echoën

rimbombare

terugkaatsen

riecheggiare

rimbalzare

αντηχώ

zurückstrahlen

résonner

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɹɪˈvɜː(ɹ).bəɹ.eɪt/

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin reverberātus, perfect passive participle of reverberō (“to rebound; to reflect; to repel”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), whence Middle French reverberer (French réverbérer) and Middle English reverberen (“to send back”)), from re- (prefix meaning ‘again’) and verberō (“to beat; to lash, whip”) (from verber (“rod; lash, whip”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *werbʰ-) + -ō (suffix forming regular first-conjugation verbs)).