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Requital vs Reverberate - What's the difference?

requital | reverberate |

As a noun requital

is compensation for loss or damage; amends.

As a verb reverberate is

to ring with many echos.

As an adjective reverberate is

reverberant.

requital

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Compensation for loss or damage; amends.
  • retaliation or reprisal; vengeance.
  • Anagrams

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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
  • References

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    Adjective

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