MEANING
1. To resound with a rich, deep, or sustained audible quality.
2. To produce an amplified oscillatory response to a driving influence near a natural frequency.
3. To connect with someone’s experience or feelings in a meaningful way.
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Words that belong together
- a voice resonates
- resonate through a chamber
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Her voice resonated through the chamber without becoming loud.
The bell resonated above the last footsteps in the courtyard.
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Word forms
- Base
- resonate
- Past tense
- resonated
- Past participle
- resonated
- Present participle
- resonating
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- resonate
- Present continuous
- am/is/are resonating
- Present perfect
- have/has resonated
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been resonating
- Past
- resonated
- Past continuous
- was/were resonating
- Past perfect
- had resonated
- Past perfect continuous
- had been resonating
- Future
- will resonate
- Future continuous
- will be resonating
- Future perfect
- will have resonated
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been resonating
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Usage notes
Primary category: literary. Forms: resonate; resonates; resonated; resonated; resonating Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: resonates.
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