Hypertext Webster Gateway: "reverberating"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Reverberate \Re*ver"ber*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
{Reverberated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Reverberating}.]
1. To return or send back; to repel or drive back; to echo,
as sound; to reflect, as light, as light or heat.

Who, like an arch, reverberates The voice again.
--Shak.

2. To send or force back; to repel from side to side; as,
flame is reverberated in a furnace.

3. Hence, to fuse by reverberated heat. [Obs.] ``Reverberated
into glass.'' --Sir T. Browne.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

reverberating
adj : characterized by reverberation; "a resonant voice"; "hear
the rolling thunder" [syn: {resonant}, {resonating}, {resounding},
{reverberative}, {rolling}]


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