Usually means: Echo repeatedly; sound waves bounce.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. reverberate: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. reverberate: Merriam-Webster
  3. reverberate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. reverberate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. reverberate: Collins English Dictionary
  6. reverberate: Vocabulary.com
  7. Reverberate, reverberate: Wordnik
  8. reverberate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. reverberate: Wiktionary
  10. reverberate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. reverberate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. reverberate: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Reverberate, reverberate: Dictionary.com
  14. reverberate: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Reverberate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Reverberate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. reverberate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. reverberate: Rhymezone
  19. reverberate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. reverberate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. reverberate: FreeDictionary.org
  22. reverberate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. reverberate: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. reverberate: Legal dictionary

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  1. reverberate: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. reverberate: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. reverberate: A Word A Day
  2. reverberate: Idioms

(Note: See reverberated as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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verb:  (transitive)
verb:  To cause (a sound) to be (repeatedly) bounced against one or more surfaces; to re-echo.
verb:  Followed by on (to): to deflect or divert (flames, heat, etc.) on to something.
verb:  (chemistry, metallurgy, archaic) To heat (something) by deflecting flames on to, or passing flames over, it.
verb:  (chiefly sciences) To repeatedly reflect (heat, light, or other radiation).
verb:  (obsolete)
verb:  To drive, force, or push (someone or something) back; to repel, to repulse.
verb:  To send (something) back from where it came.
verb:  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).
verb:  (rare) To beat or hit (something) repeatedly.
verb:  (intransitive)
verb:  Of sound: to (repeatedly) bounce against one or more surfaces; to echo or re-echo, to resound.
verb:  Chiefly followed by to or with: of a place or thing: to ring or vibrate with many echoing sounds; to re-echo, to resound.
verb:  Often followed by from: of heat or (less commonly) light: to be (repeatedly) reflected.
verb:  (figurative)
verb:  Of information, news, etc.: to be spread widely through repetition.
verb:  Of a thing: to have lasting and often significant effects.
verb:  (rare) Of a thing: to be heated by having flames, hot gases, etc., deflected or passed over it.
verb:  To deflect or divert flames, hot gases, etc., on or into something.
verb:  To shine on something, especially with reflected light.
verb:  Of a thing: to (repeatedly) bounce against one or more surfaces, especially with a sound; to rebound, to recoil.
verb:  Followed by on or upon, or to: of a thing: to return and affect a person, their feelings, etc.; to recoil.
verb:  (rare) Followed by in and a reflexive pronoun: of a thing: to turn back on itself.
verb:  (rare) Of a furnace, kiln, etc.: to heat up through the effect of flames, hot gases, etc., deflecting within it.
verb:  (chemistry, metallurgy) To heat something by deflecting flames on to, or passing flames over, it.
adjective:  Synonym of reverberant (“that tends to reverberate (“(repeatedly) bounce against one or more surfaces”) or has reverberated”); re-echoed.
adjective:  (rare) Ringing or vibrating with many echoing sounds; re-echoing, resounding, reverberating.

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