reverberate

• From Latin verbero (“to beat”).

• IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈvɜː(ɹ).bəɹ.eɪt/

reverberate (third-person singular simple present reverberates, present participle reverberating, simple past and past participle reverberated)

1. (intransitive) to ring with many echos
2. (intransitive) to have a lasting effect
   • 2014 November 17, Roger Cohen, “The horror! The horror! The trauma of ISIS [print version: International New York Times, 18 November 2014, p. 9]”, in The New York Times‎:

     What is unbearable, in fact, is the feeling, 13 years after 9/11, that America has been chasing its tail; that, in some whack-a-mole horror show, the quashing of a jihadi enclave here only spurs the sprouting of another there; that the ideology of Al Qaeda is still reverberating through a blocked Arab world whose Sunni-Shia balance (insofar as that went) was upended by the American invasion of Iraq.

3. (intransitive) to repeatedly return
4. To return or send back; to repel or drive back; to echo, as sound; to reflect, as light, as light or heat.
   • Shakespeare

     who, like an arch, reverberates the voice again

5. To send or force back; to repel from side to side.

   Flame is reverberated in a furnace.

6. To fuse by reverberated heat.
   • Sir Thomas Browne

     reverberated into glass

7. (intransitive) to rebound or recoil
8. (intransitive) to shine or reflect (from a surface, etc.)
9. (obsolete) to shine or glow (on something) with reflected light

• reverberant
• reverberation
• reverberator
• reverberatory
• reverberative

• “reverberate” in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989, →ISBN.

reverberate (comparative more reverberate, superlative most reverberate)

1. reverberant
   • Shakespeare

     the reverberate hills

2. Driven back, as sound; reflected.
   • Michael Drayton

     With the reverberate sound the spacious air did fill

reverberāte

1. vocative masculine singular of reverberātus