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REVERBERATE

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 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Treat, process, heat, melt, or refine in a reverberatory furnace

Example:

reverberate ore

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "reverberate" is one way to...):

process; treat (subject to a process or treatment, with the aim of readying for some purpose, improving, or remedying a condition)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Spring back; spring away from an impact

Example:

These particles do not resile but they unite after they collide

Synonyms:

bounce; bound; rebound; recoil; resile; reverberate; ricochet; spring; take a hop

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "reverberate" is one way to...):

bound; jump; leap; spring (move forward by leaps and bounds)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "reverberate"):

kick; kick back; recoil (spring back, as from a forceful thrust)

bound off; skip (bound off one point after another)

carom (rebound after hitting)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP

Sense 3

Meaning:

To throw or bend back (from a surface)

Example:

Sound is reflected well in this auditorium

Synonyms:

reflect; reverberate

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Verb group:

reverberate (be reflected as heat, sound, or light or shock waves)

Domain category:

acoustics (the study of the physical properties of sound)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "reverberate"):

reverberate (be reflected as heat, sound, or light or shock waves)

mirror (reflect as if in a mirror)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

reverberant (having a tendency to reverberate or be repeatedly reflected)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Be reflected as heat, sound, or light or shock waves

Example:

the waves reverberate as far away as the end of the building

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Hypernyms (to "reverberate" is one way to...):

reflect; reverberate (to throw or bend back (from a surface))

Verb group:

reflect; reverberate (to throw or bend back (from a surface))

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

reverberant (having a tendency to reverberate or be repeatedly reflected)

Sense 5

Meaning:

Ring or echo with sound

Example:

the hall resounded with laughter

Synonyms:

echo; resound; reverberate; ring

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Hypernyms (to "reverberate" is one way to...):

go; sound (make a certain noise or sound)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "reverberate"):

consonate (sound in sympathy)

reecho (repeat or return an echo again or repeatedly; send (an echo) back)

reecho (echo repeatedly, echo again and again)

bong (ring loudly and deeply)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s PP

Sentence example:

The woods reverberate with many kinds of birds

Derivation:

reverberance (having the character of a loud deep sound; the quality of being resonant)

reverberant (having a tendency to reverberate or be repeatedly reflected)

reverberation (the repetition of a sound resulting from reflection of the sound waves)

reverberative (characterized by resonance)

Sense 6

Meaning:

Have a long or continuing effect

Example:

The discussions with my teacher reverberated throughout my adult life

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Hypernyms (to "reverberate" is one way to...):

die hard; endure; persist; prevail; run (continue to exist)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

reverberation (a remote or indirect consequence of some action)

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