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What does "reverberate" mean?

Reverberate: Driven back, as sound; reflected. [Obs.] Drayton.

Additional senses

  1. 2.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. 3.To send or force back; to repel from side to side; as, flame is reverberated in a furnace.
  3. 4.Hence, to fuse by reverberated heat. [Obs.] "Reverberated into glass." Sir T. Browne.
  4. 5.To resound; to echo.
  5. 6.To be driven back; to be reflected or repelled, as rays of light; to be echoed, as sound.

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