REVERBERATE

a. v.

7 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
a.

Reverberant. [Obs.] "The reverberate hills." Shak.

2.
a.

Driven back, as sound; reflected. [Obs.] Drayton.

3.
v.

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. Shak.

4.
v.

To send or force back; to repel from side to side; as, flame is reverberated in a furnace.

5.
v.

Hence, to fuse by reverberated heat. [Obs.] "Reverberated into glass." Sir T. Browne.

6.
v.

To resound; to echo.

7.
v.

To be driven back; to be reflected or repelled, as rays of light; to be echoed, as sound.

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