Definition of "reverberate"

reverberate

/ɹɪˈvɜː(ɹ).bəɹ.eɪt/

verb
third-person singular simple present reverberates, present participle reverberating, simple past and past participle reverberated
1. (intransitive) To ring or sound with many echos.
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  The depths of its old forest reverberated to the echoing thunder, and many a stately tree stood scorched and blackening, to whose withered boughs spring would now return in vain.
  1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), page 239
  It did not occur to him to be afraid of the vivid fork lightning or the loud thunder that reverberated down the valley.
  1959, Moore Raymond, Smiley Roams the Road, London: Hulton Press, page 131
2. (intransitive) To have a lasting effect.
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  What is unbearable, in fact, is the feeling, 13 years after 9/11, that America has been chasing its tail; that, in some whack-a-mole horror show, the quashing of a jihadi enclave here only spurs the sprouting of another there; that the ideology of Al Qaeda is still reverberating through a blocked Arab world whose Sunni-Shia balance (insofar as that went) was upended by the American invasion of Iraq.
  2014 November 17, Roger Cohen, “The horror! The horror! The trauma of ISIS ”, in The New York Times‎
3. (intransitive) To repeatedly return.
4. To return or send back; to repel or drive back; to echo, as sound; to reflect, as light, as light or heat.
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  who, like an arch, reverberates the voice again
  c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act III, scene iii]
5. To send or force back; to repel from side to side.
6. To fuse by reverberated heat.
  Quotations
  reverberated into glass
  1642, Tho, published 1656
7. (intransitive) To rebound or recoil.
8. (intransitive) To shine or reflect (from a surface, etc.).
9. (obsolete) To shine or glow (on something) with reflected light.
adjective
comparative more reverberate, superlative most reverberate
1. reverberant
  Quotations
  the reverberate hills
  c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act I, scene v]
2. Driven back, as sound; reflected.
  Quotations
  With the reverberate sound the spacious ayre did fill
  1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, song 9 p. 145

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