echoing

SayEK-oh-ingUS/ˈɛkoʊɪŋ/UK/ˈɛkəʊɪŋ/

Noun pluralechoings

2 meanings of echoing

1
verb
Present participle and gerund of echo. Use it for an action happening now or as the name of the action.
The children kept echoing every word the teacher said.
Her voice was echoing all around the empty gym.
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2
nouncountable or uncountable
The repeating of a sound after it bounces back off a surface.
Like shouting in a big empty room and hearing your own voice come back.
The echoing in the empty cave made our voices sound strange.
We heard a faint echoing after the door slammed shut.
Similarreverberation, resonance
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echoing is a form of echo

echo, verb: To say again what someone else has said or thought. Full entry

Forms: echoechoes he/she/itechoing -ing formechoed past tense, past participle
Spelling: echo → echoing: add -ing

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