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to reverberate

to reverberate

9.9
To heat and treat metal in a furnace to make it pure
  • verb
  • /rɪˈvɜːrbəˌreɪt/
  • Specialized
translation icon : refinar en horno reverberatorio
  • To create the alloy, the craftsmen reverberated the ore in a furnace for several hours.

Examples

  • (metal reverberating)

    Sex Game (2023)

  • This means that we sent all the individual tracks (vocals, guitar, drums, etc.) out of the software program to a huge mixing board and then through various outboard gear, including a plate reverb tank that literally has a giant metal plate that reverberates the sound.

    Blog text (30)

  • For those who are considering cremation, here is what you should know: a 140-pound body, after fifty minutes in a reverberating furnace (which attains temperatures of 2000 degrees), is reduced to four pounds of ash, essential salts.

    Fiction book (1997)

  • The metal was heated to a high temperature in the reverberate furnace to refine its purity.

  • In the factory, they use a special process to reverberate the metals and enhance their quality.

Phrasal Verbs

to reverberate through
3 7.2

Echo through a place or group and keep having an effect over time

Surface Forms

reverberate infinitive
reverberated past
reverberated past participle
reverberating present participle
reverberates third person singular

Morphology

reverberate = re + verber + ate

The technical metallurgical sense relies on specialized usage and the non-productive root 'verber' (not a standalone English word), so learners cannot infer this meaning from the parts.

Etymology

Reverberate comes from Latin parts re- 'back' and verberare 'to strike', and in a reverberatory furnace the heat 'bounces' back from the roof onto the metal. So in this meaning to reverberate is to treat metal by heating it with that reflected heat.