reverberate

Verb
  1. Ring or echo with sound (synset 202188233)
    "the hall resounded with laughter"
    hypernym: go, sound - make a certain noise or sound
    hyponym:
    • 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
    synonym: echo, resound, ring
  2. Have a long or continuing effect (synset 202654020)
    "The discussions with my teacher reverberated throughout my adult life"
    hypernym: die hard, endure, persist, prevail, run - continue to exist
  3. Be reflected as heat, sound, or light or shock waves (synset 202140998)
    "the waves reverberate as far away as the end of the building"
    hypernym: reflect, reverberate - to throw or bend back (from a surface)
    verb group: reflect, reverberate - to throw or bend back (from a surface)
  4. To throw or bend back (from a surface) (synset 202140736)
    "Sound is reflected well in this auditorium"
    domain category: acoustics - the study of the physical properties of sound
    hyponym:
    • reverberate - be reflected as heat, sound, or light or shock waves
    • mirror - reflect as if in a mirror
    synonym: reflect
    verb group: reverberate - be reflected as heat, sound, or light or shock waves
  5. Spring back;
    Spring away from an impact (synset 201896097)
    "The rubber ball bounced"; "These particles do not resile but they unite after they collide"
    hypernym: bound, jump, leap, spring - move forward by leaps and bounds
    hyponym:
    synonym: bounce, bound, rebound, recoil, resile, ricochet, spring, take a hop
  6. Treat, process, heat, melt, or refine in a reverberatory furnace (synset 200517222)
    "reverberate ore"
    hypernym: process, treat - subject to a process or treatment, with the aim of readying for some purpose, improving, or remedying a condition

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