reverberate

Other forms of reverberate

past tense

reverberated·

present participle

reverberating·

third person

reverberates·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about reverberate

What does reverberate mean?

reverberate means "ring or echo with sound". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in reverberate?

reverberate has 4 syllables: re-ver-be-rate. The stress falls on "ver". In IPA it is /ɹɪˈvɝbɚət/.

What is another word for reverberate?

Close synonyms include resound, echo, ring, reflect, bounce. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is reverberate a common word?

reverberate is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.