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soundingverb1present participle of sound to continue or be repeated in a series of reflected sound wavesthe stranded hiker's cries for help sounded throughout the canyon echoing, reechoing, resonating, resounding, reverberating ringing, rolling dampening, damping, deadening, dulling, quieting to give the impression of beingthe idea at least sounds plausible acting, appearing, coming across (as), coming off (as), feeling, looking, making, seeming dissembling, pretendingrecalling, resembling, suggestinghinting, implying, insinuating to make known (as an idea, emotion, or opinion)a person who certainly isn't shy about sounding her opinions airing, expounding, expressing, giving, looking, raising, stating, ventilating, venting, voicing advertising, announcing, declaring, enouncing, enunciating, proclaiming, sayingbroadcasting, circulating, disseminating, publishingdescribing, writing, writing upsounding off, speaking out, speaking upchiming incommunicating, conveying, putting across, putting overoffering, submitting giving air to, putting forth stifling, suppressing censoring, restraining, restricting to make known openly or publiclythe grand opening of the region's newest and largest mall has been loudly sounded for months advertising, announcing, annunciating, blaring, blazing, blazoning, broadcasting, declaring, enunciating, flashing, giving out, heralding, placarding, posting, proclaiming, promulgating, publicizing, publishing, releasing, trumpeting barking, calling (off or out), cryingbillboarding, billing, bulletining, gazetting(chiefly British)knelling, ringing, tollingblurbing, featuring, pitching, plugging, promoting, puffingdisseminating, spreadingdisclosing, divulging, introducing, kithing(or kything, chiefly Scottish), manifesting, reporting, revealing, showingadvising, apprising, handing down, informing, notifyingcommunicating, imparting, intimating beating the drum (for or about), running with concealing, hushing (up), silencing, suppressing, withholdingrecalling, recanting, retracting, revoking soundingverb2present participle of soundto measure the depth of (as a body of water) typically with a weighted linethe pilot sounded the river to make sure we weren't in any danger of running aground to cast oneself head first into deep watera whale suddenly surfaced and then, just as suddenly, sounded in the 14th century |