resonate

From Latin resonō.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹɛz.əˌneɪt/

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• Hyphenation: res‧o‧nate

resonate (third-person singular simple present resonates, present participle resonating, simple past and past participle resonated)

1. To vibrate or sound, especially in response to another vibration.

   The books on top of the piano resonate when he plays certain notes.

2. (figurative) To have an effect or impact; to influence; to engender support.

   His words resonated with the crowd.

   • 2018 January 7, Stephanie Merritt, “Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich review – fertile ground for dystopian nightmares”, in The Guardian‎:

     “The control of women and babies has been a feature of every repressive regime on the planet,” wrote Margaret Atwood earlier this year, on why her 1985 novel The Handmaid’s Tale is resonating so forcefully in the age of Trump.

• resonator

• resonance

• Senatore, earstone, onerates, stearone

resonāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of resonō

resonate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of resonar combined with te