resound
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Definition
verb (English)
1. (transitive)Examples: "VVith noyſe vvhereof the quyre of Byrds reſounded / their anthemes ſvveet devized of loues prayſe, / that all the vvoods theyr ecchoes back rebounded, / as if they knevv the meaning of their layes."; "[T]ho' Nations, vvhich conſult / Their Gain, at thy Expence, reſound Applauſe."; "The village maids and matrons round / The dismal coronarch resound."transitive
2. (transitive)Examples: "The foreſt wide is fitter to reſound / The hollow Echo of my carefull cryes, […]"; "Heare, heare, O heare Iarbus plaining prayers, / VVhose hideous ecchoes make the vvelkin hovvle, / And all the vvoods Eliza to reſound: […]"; "I fled, and cry'd out Death; / Hell trembl'd at the hideous Name, and ſigh'd / From all her Caves, and back reſounded Death."transitive
3. (transitive)Examples: "This is the famous Promontory of Sigeum, honored vvith the ſepulcher of Achilles, vvhich Alexander (viſiting it in his Aſian expedition) couered vvith flovvers, and ranne naked about it, as then the cuſtome vvas in funerals: ſacrificing to the ghoſt of his kinſman, vvhom he reputed moſt happie, that had ſuch a trumpet as Homer, to reſound his vertues."; "The Warrier his deere skarres no more reſounds, / But ſeems to yeeld Chriſt hath the greater wounds, / Wounds willingly endur'd to work his bliſſe, / Who by an ambuſh loſt his Paradiſe."; "[B]oth Heav'n and Earth ſhall high extoll / Thy praiſes, with th' innumerable ſound / Of Hymns and ſacred Songs, wherewith thy Throne / Encompaſs'd ſhall reſound thee ever bleſt."transitive
4. (transitive)Examples: "As far as the immediate area, [the greatest anti-gay influence] has got to be the Church; it's definitely the Mormon Church. You know the current Moral Majority movement seems to be a likening to that. You know many Mormons may not like Reverend Falwell, but they'll certainly resound his sentiments."Synonyms: echotransitive
5. (intransitive)Examples: "The street resounded with the noise of the children’s game."; "At laſt, vvhen all his mourning melodie / He ended had, that both the ſhores reſounded, / Feeling the fit that him forevvarnd to die, / VVith loftie flight aboue the earth he bounded, / And out of ſight to higheſt heauen mounted: […]"; "Nevv ſorovves / Strike heauen on the face, that it reſounds / As if it felt with Scotland, and yell'd out / Like Syllable of Dolour."intransitive
6. (intransitive)Examples: "[W]hen thoſe pittifull outcries he [Proteus] heard, / Through all the ſeas ſo ruefully reſovvnd, / His charett ſvvifte in haſt he thether ſteard, […]"; "[T]hou haſt nothing ſayd, / That ſeems, vvith none of thẽ [them] thou fauor foundeſt, / Or art ingratefull to each gentle mayd, / That none of all their due deſerts reſoundeſt."; "Sternly he pronounc'd / The rigid interdiction, which reſounds / Yet dreadful in mine eare, […]"Synonyms: echointransitive
noun (English)
1. (countable) An echoing or reverberating sound; a resounding.Examples: "Presently, out of the turmoil, the fighting of horses, the resound of blows, the murky cloud of dust and sand, he crawled, in time to see the Corinthian and Byzantine go on down the course after Ben-Hur, who had not been an instant delayed."countable
2. (uncountable) The quality of echoing or reverberating; resonance.Examples: "And you ô trees (if any life there lies / In trees) now though your porous barkes receave / The straunge resounde of these my causeful cries: […]"; "Since Virtuous Actions have their own Trumpets, and without any noiſe from thy ſelf will have their reſound abroad; buſy not thy beſt Member in the Encomium of thy ſelf."uncountable
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To echo or repeat (a sound).Examples: "Any new alarms, from any patient, will resound the alarm tone."transitive
2. (intransitive) To sound again.intransitive
Definition source: Wiktionary