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BACKLASH

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

An adverse reaction to some political or social occurrence

Example:

there was a backlash of intolerance

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("backlash" is a kind of...):

reaction (doing something in opposition to another way of doing it that you don't like)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "backlash"):

white backlash; whitelash (backlash by white racists against black civil rights advances)

Derivation:

backlash (come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A movement back from an impact

Synonyms:

backlash; rebound; recoil; repercussion

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Hypernyms ("backlash" is a kind of...):

motion; movement (a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "backlash"):

bounce; bouncing (rebounding from an impact (or series of impacts))

resilience; resiliency (an occurrence of rebounding or springing back)

carom; ricochet (a glancing rebound)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect

Example:

the political movie backlashed on the Democrats

Synonyms:

backfire; backlash; recoil

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Hypernyms (to "backlash" is one way to...):

come about; fall out; go on; hap; happen; occur; pass; pass off; take place (come to pass)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

backlash (an adverse reaction to some political or social occurrence)

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