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Resounding   /risˈaʊndɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Resound  v. t.  
1.
To throw back, or return, the sound of; to echo; to reverberate.
2.
To praise or celebrate with the voice, or the sound of instruments; to extol with sounds; to spread the fame of. "The man for wisdom's various arts renowned, Long exercised in woes, O muse, resound."
Synonyms: To echo; reecho; reverberate; sound.


Resound  v. i.  (past & past part. resounded; pres. part. resounding)  
1.
To sound loudly; as, his voice resounded far.
2.
To be filled with sound; to ring; as, the woods resound with song.
3.
To be echoed; to be sent back, as sound. "Common fame... resounds back to them again."
4.
To be mentioned much and loudly.
5.
To echo or reverberate; to be resonant; as, the earth resounded with his praise.





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"Resounding" Quotes from Famous Books



... the mice, who have been busier with the prayer-books than their proper owners, and with the hassocks, more worn by their little teeth than by human knees, hide their bright eyes in their holes, and gather close together in affright at the resounding clashing of the church-door. For the beadle, that man of power, comes early this morning with the sexton; and Mrs Miff, the wheezy little pew-opener—a mighty dry old lady, sparely dressed, with not an inch of ...
— Dombey and Son • Charles Dickens
... was so like her, so like the boy she was, to come running to complain of the physical hurt which had been done her. She was certainly not a woman versed in the ways of man and in the ways of handling man. The resounding slap she had given Tudor seemed still echoing in Sheldon's ears, and as he looked at the girl before him crying out that her arm was hurt, his ...
— Adventure • Jack London
... funnier than girls, I'll eat my boots," said Archie, firing green apples at a mark. "Girls are so finicky. There's Edna, squeals if you touch her. If I give her hair just one little yank, you would think I'd pulled her scalp off. If I give Will a good punch"—illustrating with a resounding ...
— Cricket at the Seashore • Elizabeth Westyn Timlow
... Samuels case had come rapidly to a crisis. The resounding agitation had resulted in the sending of inspectors to investigate the charges against the local officials. The first of these inspectors, a rather precise and formal youth fresh from Eastern training, was easily handled by the versatile Erbe. His report, voluminous ...
— The Rules of the Game • Stewart Edward White
... during the long night watches: perched on high, in a peaceful suburb, in the midst of green gardens; made up of paper panels, and taken to pieces according to one's fancy, like a child's toy. Whole families of cicalas chirp day and night under our old resounding roof. From our veranda we have a bewildering bird's-eye view of Nagasaki, of its streets, its junks, and its great pagodas, which, at certain hours, is illuminated at our feet ...
— Serge Panine • Georges Ohnet


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