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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Reverberate

Re-vĕr'ber-āte, v. t.

verbtransitive

v. t. [imp. & p. p. REVERBERATED; p. pr. & vb. n. REVERBERATING.] [Lat. reverberare, reverberatum, from re, again, back, and verberare, to lash, whip, beat, from verber, a lash, whip, rod; It. reverberare, riverberare, Sp. reverberar, Fr. réverbérer.]

  1. To return or send back, as sound; to echo.
  2. To reflect; to repel, as light or heat.
  3. To send or drive back; to repel from side to side; as, flame reverberated in a furnace.
  4. Hence, to fuse, as by heat rendered intense by being reverberated. [Obs. and rare.] “Reverberated into glass.” Browne.

Re-vĕr'ber-āte, v. i.

verbintransitive

v. i. 1. To resound.

Even at hand a drum is ready braced, That shall reverberate all as loud as thine. Shak.

Sense 2. To be driven back; to be repelled, as rays of light; to echo, as sound.

Re-vêr'ber-ate, a.

adjective

a. [Lat. reverberatus, p. p. of reverberare. See supra.] [Obs.]

  1. Reverberant. Shak.
  2. Driving back, as sound; reverberating. B. Jon.