Dictionary entry

Echo (2)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Ech″o, v. t. [imp. & p. p.Echoed (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Echoing. — 3d pers. sing. pres.Echoes (�).] 1. To send back (a sound); to repeat in sound; to reverberate.

Those peals are echoed by the Trojan throng. Dryden.

The wondrous sound

Is echoed on forever. Keble.

2. To repeat with assent; to respond; to adopt.

They would have echoed the praises of the men whom they envied, and then have sent to the newspaper anonymous libels upon them. Macaulay.