Resound

/ɹɪˈzaʊnd/ · verb

Meaning

To make (sounds), or to speak (words), loudly or reverberatingly..

Definitions by Sense

1. To make (sounds), or to speak (words), loudly or reverberatingly.
2. Of a place: to cause (a sound) to reverberate; to echo.
3. To praise or spread the fame of (someone or something) with the voice or the sound of musical instruments; to celebrate, to extol; also, to declare (someone) to be a certain thing.
4. To repeat (another's words, opinions, etc.).
5. Of a place: to reverberate with sound or noise.
6. Of a sound, a voice, etc.: to reverberate; to ring.
7. Especially of a musical instrument: to make a (deep or reverberating) sound; also, to make sounds continuously.
8. Of an event: to have a major effect in a certain place or time.

Example Sentences

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.

Alleluia thou resoundest, / Salem, Mother ever blest; / Alleluias without ending / Fit yon place of gladsome rest: […]

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.

Let Vernal Airs thro' trembling Oſiers play, / And Albion’s Cliffs reſound the Rural Lay.

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• resounds
• resounding
• resounded
• re-sound

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