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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Resound \Re*sound"\ (r?*zound"), verb (used without an object) [imp. & p. p. {Resounded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Resounding}.] [OE. resounen, OF. resoner, F. r['e]sonner, from L. resonare; pref. re- re- + sonare to sound, sonus sound. See {Sound} to make a noise.]
1. To sound loudly; as, his voice resounded far.
2. To be filled with sound; to ring; as, the woods resound with song.
3. To be echoed; to be sent back, as sound. ''Common fame . . . resounds back to them again.'' --South.
4. To be mentioned much and loudly. --Milton.
5. To echo or reverberate; to be resonant; as, the earth resounded with his praise.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
resounding
adjective: characterized by reverberation; "a resonant voice"; "hear the rolling thunder" [syn: {resonant}, {resonating}, {reverberating}, {reverberative}, {rolling}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
60 Moby Thesaurus words for "resounding": assertive, boom, booming, consonant, deafening, ear-piercing, ear-rending, ear-splitting, earthshaking, echo, echoic, echoing, forceful, forte, fortissimo, full, growl, growling, grumble, grumbling, insistent, lingering, loud, loud-sounding, loudish, orotund, pealing, persistent, piercing, plangent, reboant, reboation, rebound, rebounding, reecho, reechoing, repercussive, resound, reverberant, reverberating, reverberation, reverberatory, ringing, rotund, round, rumble, rumbling, sonorous, sounding, stentoraphonic, stentorian, stentorious, thunder, thundering, thunderous, tonitruant, tonitruous, undamped, vibrant, window-rattling
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