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RESOUND

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 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Emit a noise

Synonyms:

make noise; noise; resound

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Hypernyms (to "resound" is one way to...):

go; sound (make a certain noise or sound)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "resound"):

blare; blast (make a strident sound)

ring out (sound loudly)

backfire (emit a loud noise as a result of undergoing a backfire)

scream (make a loud, piercing sound)

jangle; jingle; jingle-jangle (make a sound typical of metallic objects)

drown out (make imperceptible)

clitter; stridulate (make a shrill creaking noise by rubbing together special bodily structures)

brattle; clack; clatter (make a rattling sound)

racket (make loud and annoying noises)

creak; screak; screech; skreak; squeak; whine (make a high-pitched, screeching noise)

crackle; crunch; scranch; scraunch (make a crushing noise)

hum (make a low continuous sound)

claxon; honk (use the horn of a car)

purl; sough (make a murmuring sound)

howl; roar (make a loud noise, as of wind, water, or vehicles)

sizzle (make a sound like frying fat)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s

Derivation:

resonant (characterized by resonance)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Ring or echo with sound

Example:

the hall resounded with laughter

Synonyms:

echo; resound; reverberate; ring

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Hypernyms (to "resound" is one way to...):

go; sound (make a certain noise or sound)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "resound"):

consonate (sound in sympathy)

reecho (repeat or return an echo again or repeatedly; send (an echo) back)

reecho (echo repeatedly, echo again and again)

bong (ring loudly and deeply)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s PP

Sentence example:

The woods resound with many kinds of birds

Derivation:

resonant (characterized by resonance)

Credits

 Context examples: 

As he spoke, the man, puffing and blowing, rushed at our door and pulled at our bell until the whole house resounded with the clanging.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

As the sails rose to the wind, and the ship began to move, there broke from all the boats three resounding cheers, which those on board took up, and echoed back, and which were echoed and re-echoed.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

To the billiard- room I hastened: the click of balls and the hum of voices resounded thence; Mr. Rochester, Miss Ingram, the two Misses Eshton, and their admirers, were all busied in the game.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The ground shook beneath his tremendous weight, and his gulpings of water resounded through the still night.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

As he groped his way across the hall he stumbled over a toy-cart, left there by one of his numerous nephews and nieces, and brought up against a door with a resounding bang.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Through the late autumn and the early winter every road and country lane resounded with nakir and trumpet, with the neigh of the war-horse and the clatter of marching men.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The earthy smell, the sunless air, the sensation of the world being shut out, the resounding of the organ through the black and white arched galleries and aisles, are wings that take me back, and hold me hovering above those days, in a half-sleeping and half-waking dream.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He suddenly gave her a resounding kiss, which embarrassed me even more than his violence had done.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)