resound
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌɹiːˈsaʊnd/
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Verb
resound (third-person singular simple present resounds, present participle resounding, simple past and past participle resounded)
- (transitive, intransitive) To echo (a sound) or again sound.
- 1992, Health Devices, volume 21, page 117:
- Any new alarms, from any patient, will resound the alarm tone.
- 1992, Health Devices, volume 21, page 117:
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English resownen, from Old French resoner, from Latin resonare (“sound again, resound, echo”)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɹɨˈzaʊnd/
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Verb
resound (third-person singular simple present resounds, present participle resounding, simple past and past participle resounded)
- (intransitive) To reverberate with sound or noise.
- The street resounded with the noise of the children's game.
- (intransitive) To make a reverberating sound.
- The sound of the brass band resounded through the town.
- (transitive) To throw back, or return, the sound of; to echo.
- Alexander Pope
- Albion's cliffs resound the rural lay.
- Alexander Pope
- To praise or celebrate with the voice, or the sound of instruments; to extol with sounds; to spread the fame of.
- Alexander Pope
- The man for wisdom's various arts renowned, / Long exercised in woes, O muse, resound.
- Alexander Pope
Derived terms
Translations
(intransitive) to reverberate with sound or noise
(intransitive) to make a reverberating sound
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