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[syn: echoing(a), reechoing]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Echo \Ech"o\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Echoed; p. pr. & vb. n.
Echoing. -- 3d pers. sing. pres. Echoes.]
1. To send back (a sound); to repeat in sound; to
reverberate.
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Those peals are echoed by the Trojan throng.
--Dryden.
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The wondrous sound
Is echoed on forever. --Keble.
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2. To repeat with assent; to respond; to adopt.
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They would have echoed the praises of the men whom
they envied, and then have sent to the newspaper
anonymous libels upon them. --Macaulay.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
echoing \echoing\ adj.
Reflecting sounds so as to create multiple echoes; as, a
hotel with echoing halls.
[WordNet 1.5]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
echoing
adj 1: (of sounds) repeating by reflection; "a hotel with
echoing halls" [syn: echoing(a), reechoing]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
44 Moby Thesaurus words for "echoing":
answering, antiphonal, battological, booming, confutative,
duplicative, echoic, growling, imitative, iterative, lingering,
parrotlike, persistent, reboant, rebounding, recapitulative,
redundant, reduplicative, reechoing, refutative, reiterant,
reiterative, rejoining, repeating, repercussive, repetitional,
repetitionary, repetitious, repetitive, replying, resounding,
respondent, responding, responsive, returning, reverberant,
reverberating, reverberatory, rumbling, sounding, tautological,
tautologous, thundering, undamped