• IPA: /ɹɪˈvɜː(ɹ).bəɹ.eɪt/

reverberate (reverberates, present participle reverberating; past and past participle reverberated)

1. (intransitive) to ring with many echos
2. (intransitive) to have a lasting effect
3. (intransitive) to repeatedly return
4. To return or send back; to repel or drive back; to echo, as sound; to reflect, as light, as light or heat.
   • c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act III, scene iii]:

     who, like an arch, reverberates the voice again

5. To send or force back; to repel from side to side.

   Flame is reverberated in a furnace.

6. To fuse by reverberated heat.
   • 1643, Thomas Browne, Religio Medici

     reverberated into glass

7. (intransitive) to rebound or recoil
8. (intransitive) to shine or reflect (from a surface, etc.)
9. (obsolete) to shine or glow (on something) with reflected light

• reverberant
• reverberation
• reverberator
• reverberatory
• reverberative

• German: nachhallen, nachklingen, nachdröhnen
• Italian: riecheggiare
• Russian: раздава́ться
• Spanish: reverberar

• Italian: riverberare

• Spanish: reverberar

reverberate

1. reverberant
   • c. 1601–1602, William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or VVhat You VVill”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act I, scene v]:

     the reverberate hills

2. Driven back, as sound; reflected.

   • With the reverberate sound the spacious air did fill