reverberate

Etymology

* From Latin reverberātus, past participle of reverberō (“to rebound”), from re- and verberō (“to beat”).

verb

1. (intransitive) To ring or sound with many echos.
   It did not occur to him to be afraid of the vivid fork lightning or the loud thunder that reverberated down the valley. 1959, Moore Raymond, Smiley Roams the Road, London: Hulton Press, page 131
2. (intransitive) To have a lasting effect.
   What is unbearable, in fact, is the feeling, 13 years after 9/11, that America has been chasing its tail; that, in some whack-a-mole horror show, the quashing of a jihadi enclave here only spurs the sprouting of another there; that the ideology of Al Qaeda is still reverberating through a blocked Arab world whose Sunni-Shia balance (insofar as that went) was upended by the American invasion of Iraq. 17 November 2014, Roger Cohen, “The horror! The horror! The trauma of ISIS [print version: International New York Times, 18 November 2014, p. 9]”, in The New York Times
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.
5. To send or force back; to repel from side to side.
   Flame is reverberated in a furnace.
6. To fuse by reverberated heat.
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.

adj

1. reverberant
2. Driven back, as sound; reflected.
   With the reverberate sound the spacious ayre did fill 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, song 9 p. 145