reverberate
pronunciation
How to pronounce reverberate in British English:
UK [rɪˈvɜ:bəreɪt]
How to pronounce reverberate in American English:
US [rɪˈvɜrbəreɪt]
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- Verb:
- ring or echo with sound
- have a long or continuing effect
- be reflected as heat, sound, or light or shock waves
- to throw or bend back or reflect (from a surface)
- spring back; spring away from an impact
- treat, process, heatl, metl, or refine in a reverberating furnace
Word Origin
- reverberate
- reverberate: [16] Latin verbera meant ‘whips, rods’ (it was related to Greek rhábdos ‘stick’). From it was derived the verb verberāre ‘whip, beat’, which with the addition of the prefix re- ‘back’ produced reverberāre ‘beat back’. When this first arrived in English it was used literally (Thomas Coryat, for instance, in his Crudities 1611, wrote of ‘a strong wall to repulse and reverberate the furious waves of the sea’), but it was not long before the metaphorical application to the re-echoing of sounds took over.
- reverberate (v.)
- 1570s, "beat back, drive back, force back," from Latin reverberatus, past participle of reverberare "strike back, repel, cause to rebound" (see reverberation). Meaning "re-echo" is from 1590s. Earlier verb was reverberen (early 15c.). Related: Reverberated; reverberating.
Example
- 1. Icy eruptions could reverberate round the world .
- 2. Its outcome will reverberate around the middle east and will affect international politics for decades .
- 3. Ms roy strives not to speak for palestinians , but to let their voices reverberate .
- 4. On august 30th saarland may set off a man-made quake that could reverberate even farther .
- 5. While the internal fight over courier occurred about 18 months ago the implications of the decision to kill the incubation project reverberate today .