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Verberate vs Reverberate - What's the difference?

verberate | reverberate |

As verbs the difference between verberate and reverberate

is that verberate is (obsolete|transitive) to beat; to strike while reverberate is to ring with many echos.

As an adjective reverberate is

reverberant.

verberate

English

Verb

(verberat)
  • (obsolete) To beat; to strike.
  • * Mirror for Magistrates
    • The sound rebounds again and verberates the skies.
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    reverberate

    English

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • to ring with many echos
  • to have a lasting effect
  • * '>citation
  • to repeatedly return
  • To return or send back; to repel or drive back; to echo, as sound; to reflect, as light, as light or heat.
  • * Shakespeare
    • who, like an arch, reverberates the voice again
  • To send or force back; to repel from side to side.
    • Flame is reverberated in a furnace.
  • To fuse by reverberated heat.
  • * Sir Thomas Browne
    • reverberated into glass
  • to rebound or recoil
  • to shine or reflect (from a surface, etc.)
  • (obsolete) to shine or glow (on something) with reflected light

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    Related terms

    * reverberation

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • reverberant
  • * Shakespeare
    • the reverberate hills
  • Driven back, as sound; reflected.
    • (Drayton)
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