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reverberate
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  • The gunshots reverberate around them.†  (source)
  • I felt my body reverberate with it.†  (source)
  • The words seemed to reverberate in the air after he had said them, sounding slightly ridiculous, even comic.†  (source)
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  • Again Mrs Which's voice reverberated through the cave.†  (source)
  • Someone had set up a stereo, and music began reverberating through the tunnel.†  (source)
  • And sometimes I sat with her through the mass, the mass in English, what a stark thing it was, without murmur or reverberation, but still the best part of my week, and I took her arm and led her out of the church and she was not a small woman but seemed to be dwindling, passing episodically out of flesh—she felt like rice paper under my hand.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
  • Gradually, the gonglike reverberations in her head subsided, and her ears stopped ringing.†  (source)
  • His voice seemed to reverberate, loud, unnatural; it sounded like his voice come over a loudspeaker.†  (source)
  • A sound like thunder reverberates and the ceiling shakes, dropping pieces of stone down on us.†  (source)
  • They were both silent for a long moment as a car slithered by on the street outside where a light rain was falling and the evening chimes from the distant church dropped nine notes on Brooklyn's vast, reverberant midsummer stillness.†  (source)
  • Ferndean is buried, as you see, in a heavy wood, where sound falls dull, and dies unreverberating.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unreverberating means not and reverses the meaning of reverberating. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
  • His voice was booming; every word reverberated with a powerful energy.†  (source)
  • One after another the trees fell, each crash reverberating off the walls of the castle.†  (source)
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