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Resound


RESOUND', verb transitive s as z. [Latin resono; re and sono, to sound.]

1. To send back sound; to echo.

And Albion's cliffs resound the rural lay.

2. To sound; to praise or celebrate with the voice or the sound of instruments.

3. To praise; to extol with sounds; to spread the fame of.

The man for wisdom; s various arts renown'd, long exercis'd in woes, O muse, resound

RESOUND', verb intransitive

1. To be echoed; to be sent back, as sound; as, common fame resounds back to them.

2. To be much and loudly mentioned.

RE'SOUND, verb transitive [re and sound; with the accent on the first syllable.] To sound again.

RESOUND', noun s as z. Return of sound; echo.