(v. i.) To sound loudly; as, his voice resounded far.
(v. i.) To be filled with sound; to ring; as, the woods resound with song.
(v. i.) To be echoed; to be sent back, as sound.
(v. i.) To be mentioned much and loudly.
(v. i.) To echo or reverberate; to be resonant; as, the earth resounded with his praise.
(v. t.) To throw back, or return, the sound of; to echo; to reverberate.
(v. t.) To praise or celebrate with the voice, or the sound of instruments; to extol with sounds; to spread the fame of.
(n.) Return of sound; echo.
Example Sentences:
(1) In Paris, Chancellor Angela Merkel and President François Hollande tried to plot a common strategy after Greeks returned a resounding no to five years of eurozone-scripted austerity.
(2) Nor – despite today's declaration that the three-day meeting had been a resounding success – was there more than patchy progress.
(3) Promising to tear up bailout agreements that had created a “humanitarian crisis”, Syriza surged to a resounding victory .
(4) 10.03am: This from Hiraldo_TIFC, one of the Guardian Fans' Network members: Jürgen Klinsmann speaking about the process of Germany's revival in the last 6 years , worthwhile read #worldcup #GER 10.13am: Below the line, ChuckSchick asks: "Would a resounding German World Cup win, coupled with an impressive CL run by Bayern lead to greater Bundesliga coverage on UK television?
(5) This case resoundingly illustrates that the strength of our Program is not limited only to testing.
(6) He used a set of figures purporting to show high weekend death-rates that have since been resoundingly rubbished by health statisticians.
(7) A Guardian poll in August 2013 produced a resounding no vote on quotas for UK parliamentarians .
(8) That is a resounding rebuke for Berlusconi -- whose efforts to unseat Letta appear to have turned sour.
(9) At the end of the night guests voted a resounding 'yes' to supporting the campaign.
(10) Feed-in tariffs for solar panels – where the government pays people for creating their own renewable energy – have been a resounding success, but the government now intends to cut them back, a decision that has led to legal action from solar companies.
(11) The almost certain resounding no to the alternative vote shows clearly that the voters think otherwise.
(12) Frustratingly for Hilton's critics, who like to paint him as a sort of misguided guff engine, the big society has been a resounding, concrete success.
(13) Our current answer is not a resounding “No!” It’s a slightly interrogatively inflected “Probably not”, which is hardly a ringing endorsement of the health of American civilisation.
(14) But his resounding 4,091 majority delivered David Cameron a key marginal.
(15) Otherwise, the narrative will proceed to its inevitable denouement: a resounding Labour defeat in 2010.
(16) The astonishing popularity of the “rock-star economist ” is itself a resounding testament to our concern for inequality.
(17) Jubilant Republicans declared the US election race back on Thursday, calling Mitt Romney's resounding victory over Barack Obama in the first of the presidential debates a "game changer".
(18) Lionel Messi scored within three minutes of returning to action for the first time in more than three weeks to help fire Barcelona to a resounding 4-0 home win over Deportivo La Coruña .
(19) There is much evidence to suggest voters will resoundingly reject Corbynism in its current form if he makes it to the next election.
(20) As the Tory cheers resounded at the end of the budget speech, standing at the back was the diminished figure of Boris Johnson, wearing the look of a man that knew his future rival had set the bar somewhere he has never been in politics.
Reverberate
Definition:
(a.) Reverberant.
(a.) Driven back, as sound; reflected.
(v. t.) To return or send back; to repel or drive back; to echo, as sound; to reflect, as light, as light or heat.
(v. t.) To send or force back; to repel from side to side; as, flame is reverberated in a furnace.
(v. t.) Hence, to fuse by reverberated heat.
(v. i.) To resound; to echo.
(v. i.) To be driven back; to be reflected or repelled, as rays of light; to be echoed, as sound.
Example Sentences:
(1) The reverberation times were 2.1 and 1.6 s. In quiet conditions at normal speech level (60 dBA), the perception was better without earmuffs than with them.
(2) In addition, several cells showed unusual firing patterns, such as delayed responses and reverberating afterdischarges.
(3) The proposed physical process by which the metaorganization principle is implemented is based on oscillatory reverberation.
(4) The fact, that following the cooling or ablation of the auditory cortex the rhythmic afterdischarge to sound clicks as well as spontaneous spindle bursts keep arising in the medial geniculate body without changing their patterns, militates also against the possibility of thalamocortical reverberation.
(5) In situations with reverberation and less background noise the difference is less marked.
(6) For the reverberant condition, the sentences were played through a room with a reverberation time of 1.2 s. The CVC syllables were removed from the sentences and presented in pairs to ten subjects with audiometrically normal hearing, who judged the similarity of the syllable pairs separately for the nonreverberant and reverberant conditions.
(7) The fossil fuel resistance, like the fossil fuel industry, is protean and sprawling – and each win reverberates for decades to come, because that’s how long pipelines and coal mines are built to last.
(8) There are reverberating circuits between the fundus caudati and the medial groups of the nigra characterized by their small cells, between the putamen and the postero-lateral cell groups of the nigra, between the caudatum and the rostral cell groups of the nigra, presumably with the specialization that the lateral caudatum is in two-way connection with the rostro-lateral cell groups of the nigra as is the medial caudatum with the rostro-medial cell group.
(9) Speech recognition was assessed under three levels of room reverberation, each in quiet and noise, for subjects with varying amounts of sensorineural hearing impairment.
(10) Fears the closing of Toyota and Holden plans could trigger recessions in Victoria and South Australia have reverberated through the states as the two car manufacturers announced they will be pulling out in 2017.
(11) A constant shadow with closely spaced high level reverberation echoes is strongly suggestive of a metallic foreign body.
(12) Analyzing these characteristics as well as the positional relationships of reverberation artifacts in the porta hepatis and gallbladder fossa should enable one to suspect the post-cholecystectomy state and differentiate from an abnormal gas collection.
(13) It is proposed that rehabilitative audiological assessments include evaluation of an individual's ability to cope with reverberation and noise.
(14) The stimuli were degraded by reverberation or speech-spectrum noise.
(15) It also changed life in Manus entirely, reverberating through culture, imagination, infrastructure and economy.
(16) These simulated a quiet living room, a classroom, and social events in two settings with different reverberation characteristics.
(17) Our letter, organised by the Jewish Council for Racial Equality , also refers to a disturbing historical echo still reverberating today.
(18) Now that America and China are so intertwined as to be essentially one country – a fact you can’t forget here in San Francisco, where everyone is coding apps for phones made in Shenzhen – Ai’s mashup of the two nations’ oppressed minorities reverberates as a call for reckoning beyond national borders.
(19) It was one of those panicky quick decisions that has long-term reverberations that aren’t necessarily what you want.” Darling and Alexander were adamant that, for all their fears, they made the right decision on the currency.
(20) On the whole, talkers maintained their relative intelligibility across the four environments, although there was one exception which suggested that some voices may be particularly susceptible to degradation due to reverberation.