resounded

Verb

resound (third-person singular simple present resounds, present participle resounding, simple past and past participle resounded)

1. (transitive) To make (sounds), or to speak (words), loudly or reverberatingly.
   • VVith noyſe vvhereof the quyre of Byrds reſounded / their anthemes ſvveet devized of loues prayſe, / that all the vvoods theyr ecchoes back rebounded, / as if they knevv the meaning of their layes.1595, Edmunde Spenser [i.e., Edmund Spenser], “[Amoretti.] Sonnet XIX”, in Amoretti and Epithalamion. […], London: […] [Peter Short] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, signature B3, recto
2. (transitive) Of a place: to cause (a sound) to reverberate; to echo.
   • The foreſt wide is fitter to reſound / The hollow Echo of my carefull cryes, […]1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “August. Ægloga Octaua.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC, folio 33, verso
3. (transitive) To praise or spread the fame of (someone or something) with the voice or the sound of musical instruments; to celebrate, to extol; also, to declare (someone) to be a certain thing.
   • This is the famous Promontory of Sigeum, honored vvith the ſepulcher of Achilles, vvhich Alexander (viſiting it in his Aſian expedition) couered vvith flovvers, and ranne naked about it, as then the cuſtome vvas in funerals: ſacrificing to the ghoſt of his kinſman, vvhom he reputed moſt happie...1615, George Sandys, “The First Booke”, in The Relation of a Iourney Begun An: Dom: 1610. […], London: […] [Richard Field] for W. Barrett, →OCLC, page 19
4. (transitive) To repeat (another's words, opinions, etc.).
   • As far as the immediate area, [the greatest anti-gay influence] has got to be the Church; it's definitely the Mormon Church. You know the current Moral Majority movement seems to be a likening to that. You know many Mormons may not like Reverend Falwell, but they'll certainly resound his sentiments.1980 December 27, K. F. Huck, quoting David Braley, “The Spirit Of The Beehive”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 23, page 8

   Synonyms:

   echo

5. (intransitive) Of a place: to reverberate with sound or noise.
   • The street resounded with the noise of the children’s game.
6. (intransitive) Of a sound, a voice, etc.: to reverberate; to ring.
   • [W]hen thoſe pittifull outcries he [Proteus] heard, / Through all the ſeas ſo ruefully reſovvnd, / His charett ſvvifte in haſt he thether ſteard, […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 30, page 520

   Synonyms:

   echo

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