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Reverberating   /rɪvˈərbərˌeɪtɪŋ/  /rivˈərbərˌeɪtɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Reverberate  v. t.  (past & past part. reverberated; pres. part. reverberating)  
1.
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."
2.
To send or force back; to repel from side to side; as, flame is reverberated in a furnace.
3.
Hence, to fuse by reverberated heat. (Obs.) "Reverberated into glass."


Reverberate  v. i.  
1.
To resound; to echo.
2.
To be driven back; to be reflected or repelled, as rays of light; to be echoed, as sound.





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"Reverberating" Quotes from Famous Books



... clouds. And when thou wilt behold Arjuna shooting from the Gandiva a thick mass of mighty arrows like unto a flight of locusts, then wilt thou repent of thine own folly! Bethink thyself of what thou wilt feel when that warrior armed with the Gandiva, blowing his conch-shell and with gloves reverberating with the strokes of his bowstring will again and again pierce thy breast with his shafts. And when Bhima will advance towards thee, mace in hand and the two sons of Madri range in all directions, vomiting forth ...
— The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Bk. 3 Pt. 2 • Translated by Kisari Mohan Ganguli
... three of the speakers gave a great shout, which communicated electricity to the crowd, and called forth a roar from a thousand voices, that went reverberating for miles among the mountains, until you might have supposed that the Great Stone Face had poured its thunder-breath into the cry. All these comments, and this vast enthusiasm, served the more to interest our friend; nor did he think of questioning that now, ...
— The Great Stone Face - And Other Tales Of The White Mountains • Nathaniel Hawthorne
... against and coming into collision with one another. Huge, flickering, horrible, aerial phantoms, rose up (around him), so that from the uproar of the battle, the frantic pranks of the demons, the clashing of arms, and the sound of the heavy blows reverberating on the points of heroic spears, and keen edges of swords, and warlike borders of broad shields, the hero Suibhne was filled and intoxicated with horror, panic, and imbecility; his feet trembled as if incessantly shaken by the force ...
— The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II • Various
... but heavy artillery is disposable in defence of them, and Beauchamp fired some reverberating guns for the eternal against the transitory; with less of the gentlemanly fine taste, the light and easy social semi-irony, than Cecilia liked and would have expected from him. However, as to principles, no doubt Nevil was right, and Cecilia drew her father to another position. 'Are ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith
... coloured, like all the volcanic rocks of this island. In addition some chemical drip had thrown across its vividness long gauzy streamers of white. We rowed in as far as the faintest daylight lasted us. The occasional reverberating boom of the surges seemed as distant ...
— The Mystery • Stewart Edward White and Samuel Hopkins Adams


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