Hypertext Webster Gateway: "echoing"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Echo \Ech"o\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Echoed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Echoing}. -- 3d pers. sing. pres. {Echoes}.]
1. To send back (a sound); to repeat in sound; to
reverberate.
Those peals are echoed by the Trojan throng.
--Dryden.
The wondrous sound Is echoed on forever. --Keble.
2. To repeat with assent; to respond; to adopt.
They would have echoed the praises of the men whom
they ?nvied, and then have sent to the newspaper
anonymous libels upon them. --Macaulay.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
echoing
adj : (of sounds) repeating by reflection; "a hotel with echoing
halls" [syn: {echoing(a)}, {reechoing}]
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