reverberate

verb re·ver·ber·ate \ ri-ˈvər-bə-ˌrāt \

|Updated on: 13 Aug 2018

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Definition of reverberate

reverberated; reverberating

transitive verb

1 : reflect

2 : repel

3 : echo

intransitive verb

1 a : to become driven back

b : to become reflected

2 : to continue in or as if in a series of echoes : resound

a historic event that still reverberates today

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Examples of reverberate in a Sentence

the sound of thunder reverberated from one end of the mountain pass to the other

Recent Examples of reverberate from the Web

Waves of violence broke out in the western Rakhine state in 2012 between Muslims and Buddhists, leaving nearly 200 dead and displaced some 140,000, mainly Rohingya Muslims and reverberated across the country in the months and years that followed.

— timothy mclaughlin, WIRED, "How Facebook’s Rise Fueled Chaos and Confusion in Myanmar," 6 July 2018
More than 60 years after his beloved park first opened, Disney’s words still reverberate.

— arthur levine, USA TODAY, "Disney parks: Every upcoming ride, hotel and attraction," 15 June 2018
Vegas has the home-ice advantage in the best-of-seven series, which would seem to be a big advantage because the Knights went 29-10-2 at reverberating T-Mobile Arena in the regular season and are 6-1 in the playoffs.

— sam carchidi, Philly.com, "Vegas - Vegas! - and Capitals are ready for improbable Stanley Cup Finals," 28 May 2018
The sound was enormous, as though reverberating in a concert hall much larger than any community center could contain.

— naomi fry, The New Yorker, "The Intermediate Class," 24 Mar. 2018
As the raft drifts through the ice melt pouring off a glacier in Svalbard in Norway, the pianist’s plangent chords reverberate in counterpoint with the percussive booming of massive chunks of ice crashing into the ocean.

— rob nixon, Smithsonian, "Climate Change Can Also Transform Language," 23 Mar. 2018
Echoes of those years reverberate in four of Kaneko's big, abstracted ceramic heads.

— steven litt, cleveland.com, "Akron Art Museum celebrates lyrical abstractions of Jun Kaneko in show opening today (photos)," 17 Feb. 2018
Taster’s notes included chain saws, Africanized bees, and hints of hurricane, with noise trapped and reverberating in the tight-fitting carbon-fiber box that is the cabin.

— greg pajo, Car and Driver, "Ford GT Full Test: La Ford in La France!," 22 Jan. 2018
From North Africa to the Levant and the Persian Gulf, Egyptians introduced these principles — ideas that continue to reverberate today — to a new generation of Arabs.

— gerasimos tsourapas, Washington Post, "How authoritarian regimes use migration to exert ‘soft power’ in foreign policy," 6 July 2018

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Did You Know?

The letter sequence "v-e-r-b" in reverberate might make you think at first of such word-related brethren as proverb, verbal, and verbose, all of which derive from the Latin noun verbum, meaning "word." In fact, reverberate comes from a much different source: the Latin verb verberare, meaning "to whip, beat, or lash," which is related to the noun verber, meaning "rod." Reverberate entered the English language in the 15th century, and one of its early meanings was "to beat, drive, or cast back." By the early 1600s it began to appear in contexts associated with sound that repeats or returns the way an echo does.