MEANING
1. To resound through repeated reflections or returns of sound.
2. To continue having effects or prompting responses after an event.
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Words that belong together
- a shout reverberates
- reverberate through a hall
On the page
The shout reverberated through the stairwell long after he stopped.
Footsteps reverberated beneath the vaulted roof.
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Word forms
- Base
- reverberate
- Third-person present
- reverberates
- Past tense
- reverberated
- Past participle
- reverberated
- Present participle
- reverberating
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- reverberate / reverberates
- Present continuous
- am/is/are reverberating
- Present perfect
- have/has reverberated
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been reverberating
- Past
- reverberated
- Past continuous
- was/were reverberating
- Past perfect
- had reverberated
- Past perfect continuous
- had been reverberating
- Future
- will reverberate
- Future continuous
- will be reverberating
- Future perfect
- will have reverberated
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been reverberating
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Usage notes
Primary category: literary. Forms: reverberate; reverberates; reverberated; reverberated; reverberating Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: reverberates.
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