资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Reverberate \Re*ver"ber*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
   {Reverberated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Reverberating}.]
   1. To return or send back; to repel or drive back; to echo,
      as sound; to reflect, as light, as light or heat.

            Who, like an arch, reverberates The voice again.
                                                  --Shak.

   2. To send or force back; to repel from side to side; as,
      flame is reverberated in a furnace.

   3. Hence, to fuse by reverberated heat. [Obs.] ``Reverberated
      into glass.'' --Sir T. Browne.