reverberate

English

Alternative forms

• reverbate (rare)

Etymology

• From Latin reverberātus, past participle of reverberō (“to rebound”), from re- and verberō (“to beat”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈvɜː(ɹ).bəɹ.eɪt/

Verb

reverberate (third-person singular simple present reverberat, present participle ing, 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^[1]:

     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.
   • (Can we date this quote by Shakespeare and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     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.
   • (Can we date this quote by Sir Thomas Browne and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     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

Related terms

• reverberant
• reverberation
• reverberator
• reverberatory
• reverberative

Translations

to ring with many echos

• Catalan: reverberar (ca)
• German: nachhallen (de), nachklingen, nachdröhnen
• Irish: aisfhuaimnigh, macalla a dhéanamh (ga)
• Italian: riecheggiare
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Manx: aaheean
• Maori: wheoro, pāorooro
• Russian: раздава́ться (ru) (razdavátʹsja)
• Spanish: reverberar (es)

to have a lasting effect

• Catalan: reverberar (ca)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: riverberare (it)

to repeatedly return

• Catalan: reverberar (ca)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

to rebound or recoil

• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

to shire or reflect

• Spanish: reverberar (es)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

obsolete: to shine or glow

• Catalan: reverberar (ca)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

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Translations to be checked

• Greek: ^{(please verify)} αντηχώ (el) (antichó) (1)
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• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} reverberar (es)

References

• John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “reverberate”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.

Adjective

reverberate (comparative more reverberate, superlative most reverberate)

1. reverberant
   • (Can we date this quote by Shakespeare and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     the reverberate hills

2. Driven back, as sound; reflected.
   • (Can we date this quote by Michael Drayton and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     With the reverberate sound the spacious air did fill

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Latin

Participle

(deprecated template usage) reverberāte

1. vocative masculine singular of reverberātus