Echoed

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Echo \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.
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              Those peals are echoed by the Trojan throng.
                                                    --Dryden.
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              The wondrous sound
              Is echoed on forever.                 --Keble.
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     2. To repeat with assent; to respond; to adopt.
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              They would have echoed the praises of the men whom
              they envied, and then have sent to the newspaper
              anonymous libels upon them.           --Macaulay.
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