Source : 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.

Reverberate \Re*ver"ber*ate\, v. i.
   1. To resound; to echo.

   2. To be driven back; to be reflected or repelled, as rays of
      light; to be echoed, as sound.

Reverberate \Re*ver"ber*ate\, a. [L. reverberatus, p. p. of
   reverberare to strike back, repel; pref. re- re- + verberare
   to lash, whip, beat, fr. verber a lash, whip, rod.]
   1. Reverberant. [Obs.] ``The reverberate hills.'' --Shak.

   2. Driven back, as sound; reflected. [Obs.] --Drayton.

Source : WordNet®

reverberate
     v 1: ring or echo with sound; "the hall resounded with laughter"
          [syn: {resound}, {echo}, {ring}]
     2: have a long or continuing effect; "The discussions with my
        teacher reverberated throughout my adult life"
     3: be reflected as heat, sound, or light or shock waves; "the
        waves reverberate as far away as the end of the building"
     4: to throw or bend back or reflect (from a surface); "A mirror
        in the sun can reflect light into a person's eyes"; "Sound
        is reflected well in this auditorium" [syn: {reflect}]
     5: spring back; spring away from an impact; "The rubber ball
        bounced"; "These particles do not resile but they unite
        after they collide" [syn: {bounce}, {resile}, {take a hop},
         {spring}, {bound}, {rebound}, {recoil}, {ricochet}]
     6: treat, process, heatl, metl, or refine in a reverberating
        furnace; "reverberate ore"