Word Meanings - REECHO - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To give echoes; to return back, or be reverberated, as an echo; to resound; to be resonant. And a loud groan reëchoes from the main. Pope.

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• REVERBERATION
  The act of reverberating; especially, the act of reflecting light or heat, or reëchoing sound; as, the reverberation of rays from a mirror; the reverberation of rays from a mirror; the reverberation of voices; the reverberation of heat or flame
• RETURNLESS
  Admitting no return. Chapman.
• RESOUND
  resonare; pref. re- re- + sonare to sound, sonus sound. See Sound to 1. To sound loudly; as, his voice resounded far. 2. To be filled with sound; to ring; as, the woods resound with song. 3. To be echoed; to be sent back, as sound. "Common fame
• RESONANT
  Returning, or capable of returning, sound; fitted to resound; resounding; echoing back. Through every hour of the golden morning, the streets were resonant with female parties of young and old. De Quincey.
• RETURNER
  One who returns.
• REVERBERATIVE
  Of the nature of reverberation; tending to reverberate; reflective. This reverberative influence is that which we have intended above, as the influence of the mass upon its centers. I. Taylor.
• RETURN
  1. To turn back; to go or come again to the same place or condition. "Return to your father's house." Chaucer. On their embattled ranks the waves return. Milton. If they returned out of bondage, it must be into a state of freedom. Locke. Dust thou
• GROAN
  1. To give forth a low, moaning sound in breathing; to utter a groan, as in pain, in sorrow, or in derision; to moan. For we . . . do groan, being burdened. 2 Cor. v. 4. He heard the groaning of the oak. Sir W. Scott. 2. To strive after earnestly,
• RESONANTLY
  In a reasonant manner.
• RETURNABLE
  Legally required to be returned, delivered, given, or rendered; as, a writ or precept returnable at a certain day; a verdict returnable to the court. (more info) 1. Capable of, or admitting of, being returned.
• REVERBERATE
  strike back, repel; pref. re- re- + verberare to lash, whip, beat, 1. Reverberant. "The reverberate hills." Shak. 2. Driven back, as sound; reflected. Drayton.
• REVERBERATOR
  One who, or that which, produces reverberation.
• REVERBERATORY
  Producing reverberation; acting by reverberation; reverberative. Reverberatory furnace. See the Note under Furnace.
• GROANFUL
  Agonizing; sad. Spenser.
• UNDERGROAN
  To groan beneath. Earth undergroaned their high-raised feet. Chapman.
• IRRETURNABLE
  Not to be returned.