Definitions for repercussion

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repercussion re·per·cus·sion

Spelling: [ree-per-kuhsh-uh n, rep-er-]

IPA: /ˌri pərˈkʌʃ ən, ˌrɛp ər-/

Repercussion is a 12 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 1194 anagrams from letters in repercussion (ceeinoprrssu).

Definitions for repercussion

noun

1. an effect or result, often indirect or remote, of some event or action:
2. the state of being driven back by a resisting body.
3. a rebounding or recoil of something after impact.
4. reverberation; echo.
5. Music. (in a fugue) the point after the development of an episode at which the subject and answer appear again.

Origin of repercussion

1375-1425; late Middle English (Middle French) Latin repercussiōn- (stem of repercussiō) a rebounding, equivalent to repercuss(us) (past participle of repercutere to strike back) + -iōn-

Examples for repercussion

Yet was it not inevitable that the stroke which laid him low must wound her on its repercussion?

I have only known existence by the pressure of the heavy hand of sickness, and counted time by the repercussion of pain.

The repercussion of the battle of Ypres was immediately felt in Canada.

In agony they lay in silence and counted time by the repercussion of pain until the welcome dawn came with its new supply of hope.

She felt the repercussion of it in all her nerves, although her sound common-sense condemned the sensation as unreal.

The repercussion was at once felt even in our remote corner of the earth.

But there are ways with hand or handkerchief of breaking the repercussion.

Is not sound a condition of the air under compression, dilatation, and repercussion?

Even as far north as Greenland the repercussion may be felt.

The halting words of Cyprien rang in his ears, like the repercussion of an endless echo.