v.
- (of a loud noise) be repeated as an echo.
▸(of a place) appear to vibrate because of a loud noise.
- have continuing serious effects.
Derivative
- reverberant adj.
- reverberantly adv.
- reverberation n.
- reverberative adj.
- reverberator n.
- reverberatory adj.
Etymology
C15 (earlier (ME) as reverberation): from L. reverberat-, reverberare ‘strike again’, from re- ‘back’ + verberare ‘to lash’.
