Dictionary entry details
• REVERBERATE (verb)
Meaning:
Ring or echo with sound
Classified under:
Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling
Synonyms:
resound; reverberate; echo; ring
Context example:
the hall resounded with laughter
Hypernyms (to "reverberate" is one way to...):
go; sound (make a certain noise or sound)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "reverberate"):
consonate (sound in sympathy)
reecho (repeat or return an echo again or repeatedly; send (an echo) back)
reecho (echo repeatedly, echo again and again)
bong (ring loudly and deeply)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s PP
Sentence example:
The woods reverberate with many kinds of birds
Meaning:
Have a long or continuing effect
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Context example:
The discussions with my teacher reverberated throughout my adult life
Hypernyms (to "reverberate" is one way to...):
die hard; endure; persist; prevail; run (continue to exist)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Meaning:
Be reflected as heat, sound, or light or shock waves
Classified under:
Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling
Context example:
the waves reverberate as far away as the end of the building
Hypernyms (to "reverberate" is one way to...):
reflect; reverberate (to throw or bend back or reflect (from a surface))
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Meaning:
To throw or bend back or reflect (from a surface)
Classified under:
Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling
Synonyms:
reflect; reverberate
Context examples:
A mirror in the sun can reflect light into a person's eyes / Sound is reflected well in this auditorium
Domain category:
acoustics (the study of the physical properties of sound)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "reverberate"):
reverberate (be reflected as heat, sound, or light or shock waves)
mirror (reflect as if in a mirror)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Meaning:
Spring back; spring away from an impact
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Synonyms:
take a hop; ricochet; rebound; bounce; resile; recoil; spring; bound; reverberate
Context examples:
The rubber ball bounced / These particles do not resile but they unite after they collide
Hypernyms (to "reverberate" is one way to...):
bound; jump; leap; spring (move forward by leaps and bounds)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "reverberate"):
kick; kick back; recoil (spring back, as from a forceful thrust)
bound off; skip (bound off one point after another)
carom; glance (rebound after hitting)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP
Meaning:
Treat, process, heat, melt, or refine in a reverberating furnace
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Context example:
reverberate ore
Hypernyms (to "reverberate" is one way to...):
process; treat (subject to a process or treatment, with the aim of readying for some purpose, improving, or remedying a condition)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
