reverberate

Definitions

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

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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• What is driven back, as sound; reflected. [Obs.] Drayton called?
• What is 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 called?
• What is to send or force back; to repel from side to side; as, flame is reverberated in a furnace called?
• What is hence, to fuse by reverberated heat. [Obs.] "Reverberated into glass." Sir T. Browne called?
• What is to be driven back; to be reflected or repelled, as rays of light; to be echoed, as sound called?