reverbate

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A form of reverberate — To cause (a sound) to be (repeatedly) bounced against one or more surfaces; to re-echo.

Scrabble 14

Meanings

verbreverbate (third-person singular simple present reverbates, present participle reverbating, simple past and past participle reverbated)

present singular third person reverbates · participle present reverbating · participle past reverbated · past reverbated

  1. alternativerareAlternative form of reverberate.

    […] Thus the language used may confuse some who are rooted in disciplinary language. In Stella, the “systems dynamics” are generated from a set of initial conditions through a series of shocks to stocks and flows which, in turn, reverbate through the system.

    2009 October 29, Annette Piorr, Klaus Müller, editors, Rural Landscapes and Agricultural Policies in Europe, Springer, →ISBN, page 60
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    The heavenly orbs heard the commanding voice reverbate from the mountains of Adamida. The ſtar tremulous turn'd its thundering poles, and the whole creation reſounded; when, with terrific haſte, Adamida, in obediance to the divine command, flew amidſt overwhelming ſtorms, ruſhing clouds, falling mountains, and ſwelling ſeas.

    1769, Joseph Collyer, transl., The Messiah. Attempted from the German of Mr. Klopstock, 4th edition, page 280

    […]the silence was of the air before the storm and that the crack of thunder would reverbate through the city at any moment.⁶² Minor confrontations were reported in the morning,⁶³ but disturbances started on a large scale in the afternoon in the aftermath of the meeting.

    2004 August 2, Bidyut Chakrabarty, The Partition of Bengal and Assam, 1932-1947: Contour of Freedom, Routledge, →ISBN, page 170

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