reverberate

Verb

ring or echo with sound
have a long or continuing effect
- "The discussions with my teacher reverberated throughout my adult life"
be reflected as heat, sound, or light or shock waves
- "the waves reverberate as far away as the end of the building"
to throw or bend back (from a surface)
spring back; spring away from an impact
treat, process, heat, melt, or refine in a reverberatory furnace
- "reverberate ore"
To cause (a sound) to be (repeatedly) bounced against one or more surfaces; to re-echo.
Followed by on (to): to deflect or divert (flames, heat, etc.) on to something.
To heat (something) by deflecting flames on to, or passing flames over, it.
To repeatedly reflect (heat, light, or other radiation).
To drive, force, or push (someone or something) back; to repel, to repulse.
To send (something) back from where it came.
Of light or sound: to fall on or hit (a surface or other thing); also, to fill or spread throughout (a space or other thing).
To beat or hit (something) repeatedly.
Of sound: to (repeatedly) bounce against one or more surfaces; to echo or re-echo, to resound.
Chiefly followed by to or with: of a place or thing: to ring or vibrate with many echoing sounds; to re-echo, to resound.
Often followed by from: of heat or (less commonly) light: to be (repeatedly) reflected.
Of information, news, etc.: to be spread widely through repetition.
Of a thing: to have lasting and often significant effects.
Of a thing: to be heated by having flames, hot gases, etc., deflected or passed over it.
To deflect or divert flames, hot gases, etc., on or into something.
To shine on something, especially with reflected light.
Of a thing: to (repeatedly) bounce against one or more surfaces, especially with a sound; to rebound, to recoil.
Followed by on or upon, or to: of a thing: to return and affect a person, their feelings, etc.; to recoil.
Followed by in and a reflexive pronoun: of a thing: to turn back on itself.
Of a furnace, kiln, etc.: to heat up through the effect of flames, hot gases, etc., deflecting within it.
To heat something by deflecting flames on to, or passing flames over, it.

Adj

Synonym of reverberant (“that tends to reverberate (“(repeatedly) bounce against one or more surfaces”) or has reverberated”); re-echoed.
Ringing or vibrating with many echoing sounds; re-echoing, resounding, reverberating.

Examples

A beam of light shone into the interior of a mirrored sphere would reverberate in itself.
Flame is reverberated in a furnace.

Origin / 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”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *werbʰ-) + -ō (suffix forming regular first-conjugation verbs)).

Synonyms

bounce, bound, echo, rebound, recoil, reflect, resile, resound, ricochet, ring, spring, take a hop, reverberant

Scrabble Score: 16

reverberate: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
reverberate: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
reverberate: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 18

reverberate: valid Words With Friends Word