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REPERCUSSION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A movement back from an impact
Synonyms:
backlash; rebound; recoil; repercussion
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("repercussion" 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 "repercussion"):
bounce; bouncing (rebounding from an impact (or series of impacts))
resilience; resiliency (an occurrence of rebounding or springing back)
carom; ricochet (a glancing rebound)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A remote or indirect consequence of some action
Example:
reverberations of the market crash were felt years later
Synonyms:
repercussion; reverberation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural phenomena
Hypernyms ("repercussion" is a kind of...):
consequence; effect; event; issue; outcome; result; upshot (a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon)
Derivation:
repercuss (cause repercussions; have an unwanted effect)
