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Adjective: reverberating  ri'vurbu`reyting
  1. Characterized by resonance
    - resonant, resonating, resounding, reverberative, boomy
Verb: reverberate  ri'vurbu`reyt
  1. Ring or echo with sound
    - resound, echo, ring
     
  2. Have a long or continuing effect
    "The discussions with my teacher reverberated throughout my adult life"
     
  3. Be reflected as heat, sound, or light or shock waves
    "the waves reverberate as far away as the end of the building"
     
  4. To throw or bend back (from a surface)
    - reflect
     
  5. Spring back; spring away from an impact
    - bounce, resile, take a hop, spring, bound, rebound, recoil, ricochet
     
  6. Treat, process, heat, melt, or refine in a reverberatory furnace
    "reverberate ore"

See also: reverberance, reverberant, reverberation

Type of: bound, die hard, endure, go, jump, leap, persist, prevail, process, run, sound, spring, treat