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Definition
when something has a continuing effect
- Everything was in blossom, the nightingales trilled, and their voices reverberated now near, now far away.Book Six — 1808-10 (6% in)
- She listened joyfully (as though she had not expected it) to the charm of the notes reverberating, filling the whole empty ballroom, and slowly dying away; and all at once she felt cheerful.Book Six — 1808-10 (84% in)
- As if responding to them but with a different sort of merriment, the metallic sound of the bells reverberated high above and the hot rays of the sun bathed the top of the opposite slope with yet another sort of merriment.Book Ten — 1812 (56% in)
- The first shots had not yet ceased to reverberate before others rang out and yet more were heard mingling with and overtaking one another.Book Ten — 1812 (77% in)
- Suddenly a fresh sound, a piercing feminine scream, reverberated from the porch and the cook came running into the vestibule.Book Eleven — 1812 (73% in)
- With an unexpected reverberation in his voice Pierre rapidly began: "No, monseigneur," he said, suddenly remembering that Davout was a duke.Book Twelve — 1812 (55% in)
- "Hurrah-ah-ah!" reverberated in the forest, and the Cossack companies, trailing their lances and advancing one after another as if poured out of a sack, dashed gaily across the brook toward the camp.Book Thirteen — 1812 (25% in)
There are no more uses of "reverberate" in War and Peace.
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