Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • intransitive verb To sound back or reverberate.
  • intransitive verb To echo back; repeat.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The echo of an echo; a second or repeated echo.
  • To echo back; sound back or reverberate again.
  • To echo back; return; send back: repeat; reverberate again: as, the hills reëcho the roar of cannon.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb To echo back; to reverberate again.
  • intransitive verb To give echoes; to return back, or be reverberated, as an echo; to resound; to be resonant.
  • noun The echo of an echo; a repeated or second echo.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb To reverberate
  • noun A second or subsequent echo

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the echo of an echo
  • verb echo repeatedly, echo again and again
  • verb repeat back like an echo
  • verb repeat or return an echo again or repeatedly; send (an echo) back

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Examples

  • Jonathan, Angles and Yankees, all reecho the fact.

    Uncollected Prose 2006

  • I will say only now that they did prevent it, they did stop the Storms and have made it so that they will not reecho at some later time, and that the result of this was to change all the magic as we knew it.

    Owlflight Lackey, Mercedes 1997

  • He frowned into the distance again, all the parallel lines of that high forehead seeming to echo and reecho his speculations and his grief.

    The Silent Tower Hambly, Barbara 1986

  • It seemed to echo and reecho for a long time before I shut it off.

    A Question of Courage Virgil Finlay 1951

  • His intimates noticed that he would reecho a story -- a simile or a tag -- and so neatly apply it that it seemed fresh on the second use.

    The Lincoln Story Book Henry Llewellyn Williams

  • A fruitless struggle ensued, and at length, seeming to accommodate himself to circumstances, he set off at a sharp trot, his guards making the air reecho with their merry shouts.

    Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 3 Charles Herbert Sylvester

  • As if to reecho Collier's sentiments, Sullivan got up and demanded that

    The Story of The American Legion George Seay Wheat

  • It was a load that would echo and reecho in the hills.

    O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921 Various

  • Poets are sweetest when they reecho its whisperings; orators are most potent when they thrill its chords to music.

    America First Patriotic Readings Jasper Leonidas McBrien

  • The woods reecho with their wild screams and the weird ululations of the battle cry.

    The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir John M. Garvan

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