reverberate

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   treat, process, heat, melt, or refine in a reverberatory furnace

   reverberate ore

2. 2
   verb

   to throw or bend back, from a surface

   The guitar strings reverberated as they strummed.

3. 3
   verb

   be reflected as heat, sound, or light or shock waves

   the waves reverberate as far away as the end of the building

4. 4
   verb

   have a long or continuing effect

   The discussions with my teacher reverberated throughout my adult life

5. 5
   verb

   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 like a gate of ſteele: / Fronting the Sunne, receiues and renders back / His figure and his heate.

6. 6
   verb

   Followed by on (to): to deflect or divert (flames, heat, etc.) on to something.

   Flame is reverberated in a furnace.

7. 7
   verb

   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.

8. 8
   verb

   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.

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)).