fill the air vs resound

fill the air

resound

verb
  • Of a place: to reverberate with sound or noise. 

  • Of a sound, a voice, etc.: to reverberate; to ring. 

  • Of a person, their reputation, etc.: to be much lauded or mentioned. 

  • Of a place: to cause (a sound) to reverberate; to echo. 

  • Especially of a musical instrument: to make a (deep or reverberating) sound; also, to make sounds continuously. 

  • Of an event: to have a major effect in a certain place or time. 

  • To make (sounds), or to speak (words), loudly or reverberatingly. 

  • To echo or repeat (a sound). 

  • To sound again. 

  • To praise or spread the fame of (someone or something) with the voice or the sound of musical instruments; to celebrate, to extol; also, to declare (someone) to be a certain thing. 

noun
  • An echoing or reverberating sound; a resounding. 

  • The quality of echoing or reverberating; resonance. 

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