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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Echo \Ech"o\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Echoed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Echoing}. -- 3d pers. sing. pres. {Echoes}.]
1. To send back (a sound); to repeat in sound; to
reverberate.
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Those peals are echoed by the Trojan throng.
--Dryden.
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The wondrous sound
Is echoed on forever. --Keble.
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2. To repeat with assent; to respond; to adopt.
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They would have echoed the praises of the men whom
they envied, and then have sent to the newspaper
anonymous libels upon them. --Macaulay.
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