reverberate

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To resound in a succession of echoes; reecho.
2. v. To have a prolonged or continuing effect: Those talks with his teacher reverberated throughout his life.
3. v. To be repeatedly reflected, as sound waves, heat, or light.
4. v. To be forced or driven back; recoil or rebound.
5. v. To reecho (a sound). See Synonyms at echo.
6. v. To reflect (heat or light) repeatedly.
7. v. To drive or force back; repel.
8. v. To subject (a metal, for example) to treatment in a reverberatory furnace.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To beat back; repel; repulse.
2. To return, as sound; echo.
3. To turn back; drive back; bend back; reflect: as, to reverberate rays of light or heat.—
4. Specifically, to deflect (flame or heat) as in a reverberatory furnance.
5. To reduce by reverberated heat; fuse.
6. To beat upon; fall upon.
7. To be driven back or reflected, as light or heat.
8. To echo; reëcho; resound.
9. To apply reverberated heat; use reverberatory agency, as in the fusing of metals.
10. Synonyms Recoil, etc. See rebound.
11. Reverberated; cast back; returned; reflected.
12. Reverberant; causing reverberation.

Wiktionary

1. v. intransitive to ring with many echos
2. v. intransitive to have a lasting effect
3. v. intransitive to repeatedly return
4. v. intransitive to rebound or recoil
5. v. intransitive to shine or reflect (from a surface, etc.)
6. v. obsolete to shine or glow (on something) with reflected light

GNU Webster's 1913

1. adj. obsolete Reverberant.
2. adj. obsolete Driven back, as sound; reflected.
3. v. To return or send back; to repel or drive back; to echo, as sound; to reflect, as light, as light or heat.
4. v. To send or force back; to repel from side to side.
5. v. obsolete Hence, to fuse by reverberated heat.
6. v. To resound; to echo.
7. v. To be driven back; to be reflected or repelled, as rays of light; to be echoed, as sound.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. have a long or continuing effect
2. v. to throw or bend back (from a surface)
3. v. ring or echo with sound
4. v. treat, process, heat, melt, or refine in a reverberatory furnace
5. v. spring back; spring away from an impact
6. v. be reflected as heat, sound, or light or shock waves