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Reverberate \Re*ver"ber*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
{Reverberated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Reverberating}.]
1. To return or send back; to repel or drive back; to echo,
as sound; to reflect, as light, as light or heat.
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Who, like an arch, reverberates
The voice again. --Shak.
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2. To send or force back; to repel from side to side; as,
flame is reverberated in a furnace.
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3. Hence, to fuse by reverberated heat. [Obs.] "Reverberated
into glass." --Sir T. Browne.
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