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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
echoing
    adj 1: (of sounds) repeating by reflection; "a hotel with
           echoing halls" [syn: echoing(a), reechoing]
2. 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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3. 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]
Thesaurus Results for echoing:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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
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