Dictionary Entry
reverberate
reverberate is a 11-letter English word with 13 senses as adjective, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Reverberant. Face value is 16 in Scrabble and 18 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
11 letters · Scrabble 16 · Words With Friends 18 · 13 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
Reverberant.
- 2adjective
Driven back, as sound; reflected.
- 3transitive verb
To return or send back; to repel or drive back; to echo, as sound; to reflect, as light, as light or heat.
- 4transitive verb
To send or force back; to repel from side to side; as, flame is reverberated in a furnace.
- 5transitive verb
Hence, to fuse by reverberated heat.
- 6intransitive verb
To resound; to echo.
- 7intransitive verb
To be driven back; to be reflected or repelled, as rays of light; to be echoed, as sound.
- 8verb
treat, process, heat, melt, or refine in a reverberatory furnace
"reverberate ore"
- 9verb
spring back; spring away from an impact
"The rubber ball bounced"
"These particles do not resile but they unite after they collide"
- 10verb
to throw or bend back (from a surface)
"Sound is reflected well in this auditorium"
Synonyms
- 11verb
be reflected as heat, sound, or light or shock waves
"the waves reverberate as far away as the end of the building"
- 12verb
ring or echo with sound
"the hall resounded with laughter"
- 13verb
have a long or continuing effect
"The discussions with my teacher reverberated throughout my adult life"
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