reverberate
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
ring or echo with sound
the hall resounded with laughter
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- ring derivation
- plangency derivation
- echo derivation
- reverberant derivation
- resonant derivation
Sense 2 verb
have a long or continuing effect
The discussions with my teacher reverberated throughout my adult life
Types & categories
- persist hypernym
Related & opposite
- repercussion derivation
Sense 3 verb
be reflected as heat, sound, or light or shock waves
the waves reverberate as far away as the end of the building
Types & categories
- reflect hypernym
Related & opposite
- reverberant derivation
- reflect verb group
Sense 4 verb
to throw or bend back (from a surface)
Sound is reflected well in this auditorium
Types & categories
- reverberate hyponym
- mirror hyponym
Related & opposite
- reflector derivation
- reverberant derivation
- acoustics domain topic
- reverberate verb group
Sense 5 verb
spring back; spring away from an impact
The rubber ball bounced
Types & categories
Related & opposite
Sense 6 verb
treat, process, heat, melt, or refine in a reverberatory furnace
reverberate ore
Types & categories
- process hypernym
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | ring |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | plangency |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | echo |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | reverberant |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | resonant |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | sound |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | consonate |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | reecho |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | reecho |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | bong |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | repercussion |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | persist |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | reverberant |
| 3 | verb group | Related & opposite | reflect |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | reflect |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | reflector |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | reverberant |
| 4 | domain topic | Related & opposite | acoustics |
| 4 | verb group | Related & opposite | reverberate |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | reverberate |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | mirror |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | leap |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | bounce |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | rebound |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | bouncing |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | resiliency |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | carom |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | springy |
| 5 | hypernym | Types & categories | jump |
| 5 | hyponym | Types & categories | kick back |
| 5 | hyponym | Types & categories | bound off |
| 5 | hyponym | Types & categories | carom |
| 6 | hypernym | Types & categories | process |