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   resound

   /rɪˈzaʊnd/

   verb

   • 1. (of a sound, voice, etc.) fill or echo throughout a place: "another scream resounded through the school" Similar echore-echoreverberatering outfill the airboompealthunderrumble
   • ▪ (of a place) be filled or echo with a sound or sounds: "the office resounds with the metronomic clicking of keyboards" Similar reverberateechore-echoresonateringvibratepulsate
   • ▪ (of fame, an achievement, etc.) be much talked of: "whatever they do in the Nineties will not resound in the way that their earlier achievements did" Similar be acclaimedbe celebratedbe renownedbe famedbe notedbe glorifiedbe proclaimedbe trumpetedbe talked aboutbe on everyone's lipsOpposite sink into obscurity
   • 2. sing (the praises) of: literary "Horace resounds the praises of Italy"

   Word Origin late Middle English: from re- ‘again’ + the verb sound1, suggested by Old French resoner or Latin resonare ‘sound again’.

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