Reverberate



GRE 蓝宝 Barron

解释

GRE 红宝书

• v. 起回声, 反响
• ［英］ v. 起回声, 反响 ( resound, echo)
• ［记］ re ( 回) +verber ( 打, 振动) +ate -> 振动回来 -> 起回声
• ［例］ The explosion reverberated through the building.

Webster Collegiate

I. verb (-ated; -ating)

• Etymology: Latin reverberatus, past participle of reverberare, from re- + verberare to lash, from verber rod — more at vervain
• Date: 15th century
• transitive verb
  • 1. reflect
  • 2. repel
  • 3. echo
• intransitive verb
  • 1.
    • a. to become driven back
    • b. to become reflected
  • 2. to continue in or as if in a series of echoes ; resound <an historic event that still reverberates today>

II. adjective

• Date: 1603
• reverberant

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