reverberate
Part of speech: verb
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
engineering
metallurgy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin reverberātus, perfect passive participle of reverberō (“to rebound; to reflect; to repel”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), whence Middle French reverberer (French réverbérer) and Middle English reverberen (“to send back”)), from re- (prefix meaning ‘again’) and verberō (“to beat; to lash, whip”) (from verber (“rod; lash, whip”) + -ō (suffix forming regular first-conjugation verbs)).
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: reverberates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: reverberating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: reverberated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: reverberated
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: reverberate
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: reverberate
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: reverberated
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: reverberate
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: reverberatest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: reverberated
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: reverberatedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: reverberates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: reverberateth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: reverberated
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: reverberate
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: reverberated
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: reverberate
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: reverberated
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: reverberate
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: reverberating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: reverberated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: more reverberate
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most reverberate
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: To cause (a sound) to be (repeatedly) bounced against one or more surfaces; to re-echo.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: [N]o man is the Lord of any thing: / Though in and of him there be much conſiſting, / Till he communicate his parts to others, / Nor doth hee of himſelfe knovv them for aught: / Till he behold them formed in the applauſe. / VVhere th'are extended: vvho like an arch reuerb'rate / The voice againe or like a gate of ſteele: / Fronting the Sunne, receiues and renders back / His figure and his heate.
[S]oundes doe riſe / By mens force vnder feete, vvounded vvith noyſe / The hilles to heav'n reverberate their voyce.
[W]hatſoever is moved is a body, but Voice is moved and reverberated from ſmooth places, as a ball againſt a VVall. So in the Ægyptian Pyramids, one Voice is redoubled four or five times.
[T]he corridor along which we were passing was built above these cloisters, and their hollow arches seemed to reverberate every footfall.
[T]he guide took a large cannon-ball, and sent it, with his whole force, rolling down the hollow, arched way, rumbling and reverberating and bellowing forth long thunderous echoes, and winding up with a loud, distant crash, that seemed to come from the very bowels of the earth.
They sat about in black and shiny and flouncey clothing adorned with gimp and beads, eating great quantities of cake, drinking much tea in a stately manner and reverberating remarks.
gloss: Followed by on (to): to deflect or divert (flames, heat, etc.) on to something.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Flame is reverberated in a furnace.
gloss: To heat (something) by deflecting flames on to, or passing flames over, it.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
transitive
examples: Svb[tle]. […] I ſent you of his fæces there, calcin'd. / Out of that calx, I'ha'vvonne the ſalt of Mercurie. / Mam[mon]. By pouring on your rectefied vvater? / Svb. Yes, and reuerberating in Athanor.
Philoſophers that opinioned the vvorlds deſtruction by fire, did never dreame of annihilation, vvhich is beyond the povver of ſublunary cauſes; for the laſt and proper action of that element [fire] is but vitrification, or a reduction of a body into Glaſſe, and therefore ſome of our Chymicks factiouſly affirme; yea, and urge Scripture for it, that at the laſt fire all ſhall be cryſtallized and reverberated into Glaſſe, vvhich is the utmoſt action of that element.
gloss: To repeatedly reflect (heat, light, or other radiation).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Fifteen Moſques profeſſe their bravery, […] the tops dignified by many double guilded creſcents or ſpires vvhich gallantly reverberate Apollo’s yellovv flames [sunbeams] in a rich and delightfull ſplendor.
It [the left ventricle of the heart] hath thicker VValls, more compacted fleſhy Pillars, vvherevvith the heat is both more eaſily preſerved and reverberated, and the blood more ſtrongly driven.
[T]heſe [quilted caps], vvhen moiſtned vvith Svveat, ſtop all Perſpiration, and by reverberating the Heat, prevent the Spirit from evaporating any vvay, but at the Mouth; […]
Swift in wide troops the Tartar chivalry / Sweep;—the far flashing of their starry lances / Reverberates the dying light of day.
Suppose, […] in the midst of the obscurity of the dim room and the smoke-laden atmosphere, there could suddenly have been poured the full glory of a tropical sunset, reverberated from the sea; How would you have shrunk, blinded, from its scarlet and intolerable lightnings!
gloss: To drive, force, or push (someone or something) back; to repel, to repulse.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: This banke is ſo neceſſary a defence for the Citie, that it ſerueth in ſteed of a ſtrong vvall to repulſe and reuerberate the violence of the furious vvaues of the Sea.
In blovving vveather, I am told, moſt of the houſes in this hill are ſmothered vvith ſmoke, forced dovvn the chimneys, by the guſts of vvind reverberated from the hill behind, […]
gloss: To send (something) back from where it came.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
gloss: Of light or sound: to fall on or hit (a surface or other thing); also, to fill or spread throughout (a space or other thing).
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: Hovv ſtill your voice vvith prudent diſcipline / My Prentize ear doth oft reverberate; […]
gloss: To beat or hit (something) repeatedly.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
rare
transitive
gloss: Of sound: to (repeatedly) bounce against one or more surfaces; to echo or re-echo, to resound.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: [There were] innumerable Rills and Brooks of VVater falling from the Clifts, making a barbarous and unpleaſant Sound; and that Sound eccho'd and reverberated from innumerable Cavities and Hollovvs among the Rocks, […]
Sometimes as an echo thou [God] reverberatest pleasantly, now as a huntsman thou killest with arrows.
At length we got to the neighbourhood of the Fairy Glen, and found ourselves in among the wet trees, with the roar of the stream reverberating through the woods.
It did not occur to him to be afraid of the vivid fork lightning or the loud thunder that reverberated down the valley.
gloss: Chiefly followed by to or with: of a place or thing: to ring or vibrate with many echoing sounds; to re-echo, to resound.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: This Revievv is in the firſt place entituled, An Eccho from the Sixth Trumpet; becauſe, it alluſively reverberateth, and Ecchoes, as it vvere, to vvhat vvas predicted ſhould come to paſs betvveen the ſounding of the Sixth and Seventh Trumpet [referred to in the Book of Revelation.]
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.
After a time, the whole fraternity [of rooks] would be in a flutter; some balancing and swinging on the tree tops, others perched on the pinnacles of the Abbey church, or wheeling and hovering about in the air, and the ruined walls would reverberate with their incessant cawings.
gloss: Often followed by from: of heat or (less commonly) light: to be (repeatedly) reflected.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: Of information, news, etc.: to be spread widely through repetition.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
intransitive
examples: They vvait till ſomething nevv comes out from others, examine its merits, and reject it, or make it reverberate throughout the reſt of Europe.
gloss: Of a thing: to have lasting and often significant effects.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
intransitive
examples: The shock—the shout—the groan of war— / Reverberate along that vale, / More suited to the shepherd's tale: […]
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.
gloss: Of a thing: to be heated by having flames, hot gases, etc., deflected or passed over it.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
rare
gloss: To deflect or divert flames, hot gases, etc., on or into something.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
gloss: To shine on something, especially with reflected light.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
examples: [Y]ou ſeem'd to reverberate upon me vvith the beams of the Sun, vvhich you knovv hath ſuch a povverful influence, and indeed too great a ſtroke in this Country: […]
Theſe Vermine are as great as a great Graſhopper, and have yellovv vvings, vve knovv of their coming a day before, not becauſe vve ſee them, but vve knovv it by the Sun, vvhich ſhevveth his beams of a yellovv colour, vvhich is a ſigne that they dravv near the Country, and the ground becoming yellovv, through the light vvhich reverberateth from their vvings, vvhereupon the people become ſuddenly as dead men, ſaying, vve are undone, for the Locuſts come.
gloss: Of a thing: to (repeatedly) bounce against one or more surfaces, especially with a sound; to rebound, to recoil.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
examples: A stone dropped into one of them [a chasm] reverberated against the sides for apparently a very great depth, and, by its sound, indicated the same kind of substance with the surface, as long as the strokes could be heard.
gloss: Followed by on or upon, or to: of a thing: to return and affect a person, their feelings, etc.; to recoil.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
examples: [S]he made all that one could tell her, all that one could describe, all that one could quote from a foreign author, reverberate, as it were, à plusieurs reprises [repeatedly], to one's own feelings, by the manifest impression it made upon hers.
gloss: Followed by in and a reflexive pronoun: of a thing: to turn back on itself.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
rare
examples: A beam of light shone into the interior of a mirrored sphere would reverberate in itself.
gloss: Of a furnace, kiln, etc.: to heat up through the effect of flames, hot gases, etc., deflecting within it.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
rare
gloss: To heat something by deflecting flames on to, or passing flames over, it.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
gloss: Synonym of reverberant (“that tends to reverberate (“(repeatedly) bounce against one or more surfaces”) or has reverberated”); re-echoed.
pos: adj
examples: So vvith reuerberate ſhoutes our Globe ſhall ring, / The Muſicks cloſe being thus: God ſaue our King.
The loftie Hills, this vvhile attentiuely that ſtood, / As to ſurvey the courſe of euery ſeuerall Flood, / Sent forth ſuch ecchoing ſhoutes (vvhich euery vvay ſo ſhrill, / VVith the reverberate ſound the ſpacious ayre did fill) […]
"Dover Beach" marks another high point in the volume; it has a grand choral cadence as of steady surges, regular in resonance, not fitful or gusty but antiphonal and reverberate.
gloss: Ringing or vibrating with many echoing sounds; re-echoing, resounding, reverberating.
pos: adj
tags: rare
examples: Make me a vvillovv Cabine at your gate, / And call vpon my ſoule vvithin the houſe, / […] / Hallovv your name to the reuerberate hilles, / And make the babling Goſsip of the aire, / Cry out Oliuia: […]
I vvas that bright Face / Reflected by the Lake, in vvhich thy Race / Read mysticke lines; (vvhich skill Pithagoras / Firſt taught to men, by a reuerberate glaſſe)
Thrice his horse neigh'd, and the reverberate hills / Gave back the image of his voice, […]
Related words: reverbate
reverberant
reverberantly
reverberation
Derived words: dereverberate
reverb
reverberated
reverberating
reverberatingly
reverberative
reverberator
reverberatory
unreverberated
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: kuumentaa heijastuslämmöllä
lang: Finnish
word: kuumeta heijastuslämmöllä