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English Dictionary: reverberating by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
reverberating
adj
  1. characterized by resonance; "a resonant voice"; "hear the rolling thunder"
    Synonym(s): resonant, resonating, resounding, reverberating, reverberative
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Reverberate \Re*ver"ber*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
      {Reverberated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Reverberating}.]
      1. 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.
  
      2. To send or force back; to repel from side to side; as,
            flame is reverberated in a furnace.
  
      3. Hence, to fuse by reverberated heat. [Obs.]
            [bd]Reverberated into glass.[b8] --Sir T. Browne.
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