1. Fill for a short time with sound and echoes
   "the hall reverberated with laughter";
   - resound, echo, ring
    
2. Bounce back or return, as waves of sound, light, or energy
   "The sound reverberated off the canyon walls";
   - reflect
    
3. Have a long or continuing effect
   "The discussions with my teacher reverberated throughout my adult life"
    
4. Move back in a roughly opposite direction after an impact
   "The rubber ball reverberated";
   - bounce, resile, spring, bound, rebound, recoil, ricochet
    
5. Treat, process, heat, melt, or refine in a reverberatory furnace
   "reverberate ore"

Derived forms: reverberated, reverberates, reverberating

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

Encyclopedia: Reverberate