echo
/ˈɛk.oʊ/ verb C2- Of a sound or sound waves: to reflect off a surface and return; to reverberate or resound.
- Of a rumour, opinion, etc.: to spread or reverberate.
- To reflect back (a sound).
- To repeat (another’s speech, opinion, etc.). · Sid echoed his father’s point of view.
- To repeat its input as input to some other device or system.
- To give the echo signal, informing one's partner about cards one holds.
He/she/it echoes · Past echoed · Past participle echoed · -ing form echoing
Verb forms
- Base form
- echo
- He/she/it
- echoes
- Past
- echoed
- Past participle
- echoed
- -ing form
- echoing
From the library
“Yes, that is final,” I involuntarily echoed.
He carved and ate and praised with delighted alacrity; and every dish was commended first by him, and then by Sir William, who was now enough recovered to echo whatever his son-in-law said, in a manner which Elizabeth wondered Lady Catherine could bear.
But now in one moment Anne saw herself winning the Avery scholarship, taking an Arts course at Redmond College, and graduating in a gown and mortar board, before the echo of Josie’s words had died away.
At last it seemed to him that one part of the wall gave forth a more hollow and deeper echo; he eagerly advanced, and with the quickness of perception that no one but a prisoner possesses, saw that there, in all probability, the opening must be.
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