To cause (a sound) to be (repeatedly) bounced against one or more surfaces; to re-echo. • Followed by on (to): to deflect or divert (flames, heat, etc.) on to something. • To heat (something) by deflecting flames on to, or passing flames over, it. • To repeatedly reflect (heat, light, or other radiation). • To drive, force, or push (someone or something) back; to repel, to repulse. • To send (something) back from where it came. • Of light or sound: to fall on or hit (a surface or other thing); also, to fill or spread throughout (a space or other thing). • To beat or hit (something) repeatedly. • Of sound: to (repeatedly) bounce against one or more surfaces; to echo or re-echo, to resound. • Chiefly followed by to or with: of a place or thing: to ring or vibrate with many echoing sounds; to re-echo, to resound. • Often followed by from: of heat or (less commonly) light: to be (repeatedly) reflected. • Of information, news, etc.: to be spread widely through repetition. • Of a thing: to have lasting and often significant effects. • Of a thing: to be heated by having flames, hot gases, etc., deflected or passed over it. • To deflect or divert flames, hot gases, etc., on or into something. • To shine on something, especially with reflected light. • Of a thing: to (repeatedly) bounce against one or more surfaces, especially with a sound; to rebound, to recoil. • Followed by on or upon, or to: of a thing: to return and affect a person, their feelings, etc.; to recoil. • Followed by in and a reflexive pronoun: of a thing: to turn back on itself. • Of a furnace, kiln, etc.: to heat up through the effect of flames, hot gases, etc., deflecting within it. • To heat something by deflecting flames on to, or passing flames over, it.