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reverberated

reverberated is the simple past and past participle of reverberate.

Meaning of reverberate

Verb

reverberate (third-person singular simple present reverberates, present participle reverberating, simple past and past participle reverberated)

  1. (transitive) To cause (a sound) to be (repeatedly) bounced against one or more surfaces; to re-echo.
    • [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...c. 1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Famous Historie of Troylus and Cresseid. […] (First Quarto), London: […] G[eorge] Eld for R[ichard] Bonian and H[enry] Walley, […], published 1609...
  2. (transitive) Followed by on (to): to deflect or divert (flames, heat, etc.) on to something.
    • Flame is reverberated in a furnace.
  3. (archaic, transitive) To heat (something) by deflecting flames on to, or passing flames over, it.
    • 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.1610 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, The Alchemist, London: […] Thomas Snodham, for Walter Burre, and are to be sold by Iohn Stepneth, […], published 1612, →OCLC, Act II, scene ii, signature...
  4. (transitive) To repeatedly reflect (heat, light, or other radiation).
    • 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.1638, Tho[mas] Herbert, Some Yeares Travels Into Divers Parts of Asia and Afrique. […], 2nd edition, London: […] R[ichard] Bi[sho]p for Iacob Blome and Richard Bishop, →OCLC, book II, page 135
  5. (obsolete, transitive) To drive, force, or push (someone or something) back; to repel, to repulse.
    • 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.1611, Thomas Coryate [i.e., Thomas Coryat], “My Obseruations of the Most Glorious, Peerelesse, and Mayden Citie of Venice: […]”, in Coryats Crudities Hastily Gobled Vp in Five Moneths Trauells […]...
  6. (obsolete, transitive) To send (something) back from where it came.

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Questions about reverberated

What is reverberated the simple past and past participle of?
Reverberated is the simple past and past participle of reverberate.

Words near reverberated in the dictionary

  1. reverberance
  2. reverberances
  3. reverberant
  4. reverberantly
  5. reverberate
  6. reverberated
  7. reverberates
  8. reverberatest
  9. reverberateth
  10. reverberating
  11. reverberatingly

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