reverberate

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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Definition

  1. verb ring or echo with sound
  2. verb have a long or continuing effect
  3. verb be reflected as heat, sound, or light or shock waves

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin reverberātus, perfect passive participle of reverberō (“to rebound; to reflect; to repel”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), whence Middle French reverberer (French réverbérer) and Middle English reverberen (“to send back”)), from re- (prefix meaning ‘again’) and verberō (“to beat; to lash, whip”) (from verber (“rod; lash, whip”) + -ō (suffix forming regular first-conjugation verbs)).

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Synonyms

resound, echo, ring

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