verb
reverberate
rih-VUR-buh-rayt/rɪˈvɜːrbəreɪt/
To sound again through repeated echoes.
The clap reverberates through the empty stone hall in repeated echoes.
Etymology
To reverberate was originally to strike or drive something back, causing it to rebound. Applied to sound, this became the image of noise reflected back as repeated echoes.
In context
Flint House looked a picture of desolation in the chill grey day, wrapped in such silence that Charles's cautious knock seemed to reverberate through the stillness around.
More examples
- A single drumbeat reverberates around the gym.
- Our shouts reverberated through the cave.
- The bell stops ringing, but its sound keeps reverberating.
Forms
reverberate · reverberates · reverberated · reverberating
reverberation noun — A sound repeated through successive echoes.