Reverberate

Definitions: Reverberate

Reverberate

Verb

1. Ring or echo with sound; "the hall resounded with laughter".

2. Sound in sympathy.

Date "reverberate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1595. (references)

Domain	Definitions
Mining	A. To deflect flame or heat, as in a reverberatory furnace. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Reverberate

Synonyms: consonate (v), echo (v), resound (v), ring (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Recoil	Verb: recoil, react; spring back, fly back, bounce back, bound back; rebound, reverberate, repercuss, recalcitrate; echo, ricochet.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Reverberate

English words defined with "reverberate": clanger ♦ nonresonant ♦ Reecho, Repercussive, Retort, reverberant, Reverberated, ringing ♦ unreverberant. (references)

Play	Caption	Play	Caption
	Reverberation; reverberate.		Reverberating futuristic tone; reverberate; echo; rebound.
	Saw plucking; reverberate; reverberation; vibrate; vibration; bluegrass music.		Clang; reverberate; reverberation; jangle; jangling.
	Reverberating futuristic tone; reverberate; echo; rebound.		Echo; reverberate; reverberation; echoing; digital; electronic.
	Jingle; percussion; instrument; chime; chink; chinkle; clamor; clang; clatter; clink; ding; jangle; rattle; reverberate; ring; sound; tingle; tinkle; tintannabulate; drumhead.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Reverberate" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 83.78% of the time. "Reverberate" is used about 37 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	83.78%	31	62,296
Lexical Verb (base form)	13.51%	5	157,705
Noun (singular)	2.7%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	37	N/A

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Language		Translations for "reverberate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		kumbon (resound, ring), jehon (echo, reecho). (various references)

Arabic		‏تردد (ambivalence, backwards, balance, be in two minds, boggle, crane, demur, difficulty, dither, fainting, falter, flicker, float, fluctuate, fluctuation, hang, haunt, hesitance, hesitancy, hesitate, hesitation, hover, hum and haw, indecision, irresolution, pause, perplexity, puzzle over, reticence, scruple, shilly shally, sound, stick, stop, stumble, tergiversation, timidity, vacillate, vacillation, vibrate, vibration, waver, wobble, worry), ‏عكس (antithesis, contrary, inversion, invert, obverse, reverse), ‏صدى (echo, rebound, repercussion, resonance, reverberation), ‏خلف صدى (resound), ‏إنعكس (be inverted, mirror, reflect, reflex), ‏إرتد (bounce, cringe, draw back, rebound, recant, recoil, reflex, regress, renegade, renounce, shrink, withdraw), ‏رجع الصدى (echo, reecho, resonate), ‏رد (answer, answer back, beat, counter, disallow, drive back, pay, pay back, put off, rebound, rebuff, rebut, rebuttal, rejoinder, render, repay, repayment, repercussion, reply, respond, response, retrieve, return, reversion, riposte, spurn, turn away), ‏دوى (blare, boom, peal, reecho, resound, roll, shrill, thunder). (various references)

Bulgarian		кънтя (echo, resound, ring), въздействувам (affect, impinge, influence, operate, react, work), отразявам се (be reflected, redound, reflect, tell), отразявам (effect, give back, glance, glass, image, mirror, reflect, throw back), отеквам се, отеквам (echo back, re echo, rebound, resound), еча (growl, grumble, peal, redouble, resound, roll). (various references)

Chinese		回荡 (Reverberated, reverberating, reverberation). (various references)

Czech		rozléhat se (resound), ozývat se (echo, resound, roar), odrážet (echo, racket). (various references)

Farsi		پیچیدن (Complicate, Envelop, Enwrap, Fake, Impact, Lap, Nest, Roll, Screw, Swab, Swath, Swathe, Tweak, Twinge, Twist, Wattle, Wind, Wrap), ولوله انداختن , طنین انداختن (Jar). (various references)

Finnish		kaikua (echo, resound). (various references)

French		retentir (resound), retenir (recall, recollect, remember, reserve, restrain, retain), réverbérer, résonner (resonate, resound), répercuter, se réverbérer, se répercuter. (various references)

German		zurückstrahlen (be reflected, reflect, reverberation). (various references)

Greek		ηχώ (blare, chime, clink, echo, peal, resonance, resound, ring, sound, ting). (various references)

Hebrew		להדהד (echo, re echo, resonate, resound). (various references)

Hungarian		visszhangzik (echo, resound, to echo again, to peal, to resound, to reverberate), visszaver (beat off, echo, give back, re echo, rebut, repulse, to glint, to parry, to rebut, to reflect, to repel, to repulse, to reverberate, to throw back). (various references)

Indonesian		mengumandang (echo), gema (reverberation), berkumandang, bergaung (dig, escavate). (various references)

Italian		riverberare, ripercuotersi (have repercussions, rebound), rimbombare (boom, din, resound, rumble, thud, to drone), riecheggiare (resound, ring out). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		鳴り響く (to echo, to resound, to reverberate). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		なりひびく (to echo, to resound, to reverberate). (various references)

Korean		교향하십시요. (various references)

Manx		cheet er ash (boomerang, reappear, resound, return, spring up), aawoalley (backlash, kickback, react, reaction, repercussion), aaheeaney (resound). (various references)

Pig Latin		everberateray

Portuguese		reverberar (glean, glimmering, glitter, reflect), ressoar (boom, clang, clash, echoic, peal, rebound, reecho, resonate, resound, rumble, sound, whang), repercutir (ding, echo, rebound, reecho, resound), refletir (bethink, consider, esteem, glass, glisten, image, meditate, mirrors, reflect, reflect on, regard, return, ruminate, see, speculate, take into account, think, think about, think over), reboar (resound), ecoar (echo, redouble). (various references)

Romanian		reverbera, repercuta, reflecta (chew the cud, cogitate, consider, contemplate, deliberate, mirror, reflect, reflex, ruminate), rãsfrânge (flap away, reflect), se reflecta (reflect). (various references)

Russian		воздействовать (influence, manipulate, react), отражать (be representative of, beat back, beat off, fend, fend off, mirror, parry, reflect, typify, ward off, warded). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		rezonirati (resonate), odjekivati (echo, reecho, resonate, sound), odbijati (block, negative, refuse, snub). (various references)

Spanish		reverberar (growl). (various references)

Swedish		återkasta (echo, reecho). (various references)

Thai		ทำให้ดังก้อง, ดังก้อง, มีผลสะท้อนต่อเนื่อง. (various references)

Turkish		yansıtmak (echo, externalize, mirror, picture, project, re echo, reflect, return), yansımak (rebound), yankılanmak (din, echo, re echo, rebound, resound, ring out again), aksetmek (echo, mirror, reflect). (various references)

Ukranian		відбиватися (bay, reflect), відбивати (beat, beat back, fend off, image, imprint, mirror, reflect, repulse, shed). (various references)

Welsh		rhybedio (rivet), datseinio (resound). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "reverberate": reverberated, reverberates. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Reverberate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: reverbarate, reverberat, reverberatd. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "reverberate" (pronounced river"berā't)
4	-b er ā' t	collaborate, corroborate, liberate.
3	-er ā' t	accelerate, adulterate, agglomerate, ameliorate, commemorate, commiserate, cooperate, decelerate, decorate, deteriorate, enumerate, evaporate, eviscerate, exaggerate, exasperate, exhilarate, exonerate, federate, generate, inaugurate, incarcerate, incinerate, incorporate, invigorate, lacerate, obliterate, operate, perforate, proliferate, recuperate, redecorate, refrigerate, regenerate, reincorporate, reinvigorate, reiterate, saturate, separate, tolerate, venerate.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-e-e-e-e-r-r-r-t-v"
	-2 letters: vertebrae.
	-3 letters: barterer, bereaver, reverter, vertebra.
	-4 letters: bereave, rebater, reverer.
	-5 letters: barret, barter, bearer, beater, beaver, berate, braver, brevet, rearer, reaver, rebate, retear, reverb, revere, revert, tearer, terrae.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-e-e-e-e-r-r-r-t-v"
	+1 letter: reverberated, reverberates.
	+2 letters: reverberative.
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