Definitions

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  • intransitive verb To vibrate back or in return.

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  • verb To vibrate back or in return.

Etymologies

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re- +‎ vibrate

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Examples

  • She gave a commencement speech at the U-M, Ann Arbor, and said ‘Harvard is the Michigan of the East’ and it still revibrate in my ears after 2 decades.

    Clinton Channels an Election Night Cliffhanger (Maybe) - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

  • His life seemed to have drawn near to eternity; every thought, word, and deed, every instance of consciousness could be made to revibrate radiantly in heaven; and at times his sense of such immediate repercussion was so lively that he seemed to feel his soul in devotion pressing like fingers the keyboard of

    A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 2003

  • His life seemed to have drawn near to eternity; every thought, word, and deed, every instance of consciousness could be made to revibrate radiantly in heaven; and at times his sense of such immediate repercussion was so lively that he seemed to feel his soul in devotion pressing like fingers the keyboard of a great cash register and to see the amount of his purchase start forth immediately in heaven, not as a number but as a frail column of incense or as a slender flower.

    A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Joyce, James, 1882-1941 1922

  • His life seemed to have drawn near to eternity; every thought, word, and deed, every instance of consciousness could be made to revibrate radiantly in heaven; and at times his sense of such immediate repercussion was so lively that he seemed to feel his soul in devotion pressing like fingers the keyboard of a great cash register and to see the amount of his purchase start forth immediately in heaven, not as a number but as a frail column of incense or as a slender flower.

    A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Joyce, James, 1882-1941 1922

  • His life seemed to have drawn near to eternity; every thought, word, and deed, every instance of consciousness could be made to revibrate radiantly in heaven; and at times his sense of such immediate repercussion was so lively that he seemed to feel his soul in devotion pressing like fingers the keyboard of a great cash register and to see the amount of his purchase start forth immediately in heaven, not as a number but as a frail column of incense or as a slender flower.

    A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man James Joyce 1911

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