Reverberate vs Repercussion - What's the difference?
reverberate | repercussion |
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
To send or force back; to repel from side to side.
To fuse by reverberated heat.
* Sir Thomas Browne
to rebound or recoil
to shine or reflect (from a surface, etc.)
(obsolete) to shine or glow (on something) with reflected light
reverberant
* Shakespeare
Driven back, as sound; reflected.
A consequence or ensuing result of some action.
The act of driving back, or the state of being driven back; reflection; reverberation.
* Hare
(music) Rapid reiteration of the same sound.
(medicine) The subsidence of a tumour or eruption by the action of a repellent.
(obstetrics) In a vaginal examination, the act of imparting through the uterine wall with the finger a shock to the foetus, so that it bounds upward, and falls back again against the examining finger.
(Webster 1913)
As a verb reverberate
is to ring with many echos.As an adjective reverberate
is reverberant.As a noun repercussion is
repercussion.reverberate
English
Verb
(en-verb)- who, like an arch, reverberates the voice again
- Flame is reverberated in a furnace.
- reverberated into glass
References
*Adjective
(en adjective)- the reverberate hills
- (Drayton)
repercussion
English
Noun
(en noun)- You realize this little stunt of yours is going to have some pretty serious repercussions .
- the repercussion of sound
- Ever echoing back in endless repercussion .
- (Dunglison)