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.
Definitions
- adjective. Reverberant.
- adjective. Driven back, as sound; reflected.
- transitive verb. To return or send back; to repel or drive back; to echo, as sound; to reflect, as light, as light or heat.
- transitive verb. To send or force back; to repel from side to side; as, flame is reverberated in a furnace.
- transitive verb. Hence, to fuse by reverberated heat.
- intransitive verb. To resound; to echo.
- intransitive verb. To be driven back; to be reflected or repelled, as rays of light; to be echoed, as sound.
- verb. treat, process, heat, melt, or refine in a reverberatory furnace
"reverberate ore"
- verb. spring back; spring away from an impact
"The rubber ball bounced"
"These particles do not resile but they unite after they collide"
- verb. to throw or bend back (from a surface)
"Sound is reflected well in this auditorium"
- verb. be reflected as heat, sound, or light or shock waves
"the waves reverberate as far away as the end of the building"
- verb. ring or echo with sound
"the hall resounded with laughter"
- verb. have a long or continuing effect
"The discussions with my teacher reverberated throughout my adult life"
Synonyms
bounce, bound, rebound, recoil, resile, ricochet, spring, reflect, echo, resound, ring
Common word forms
reverberated, reverberates, reverberating
Words from these letters
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