repercussion

repercussion is a 12-letter English word with 6 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The act of driving back, or the state of being driven back; reflection; reverberation; as, the repercussion of sound. Face value is 16 in Scrabble and 20 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

12 letters · Scrabble 16 · Words With Friends 20 · 6 senses

Definitions

1. noun. The act of driving back, or the state of being driven back; reflection; reverberation; as, the repercussion of sound.
2. noun. Rapid reiteration of the same sound.
3. noun. The subsidence of a tumor or eruption by the action of a repellent.
4. noun. In a vaginal examination, the act of imparting through the uterine wall with the finger a shock to the fetus, so that it bounds upward, and falls back again against the examining finger.
5. noun. a movement back from an impact

   Synonyms: backlash, rebound, recoil

6. noun. a remote or indirect consequence of some action

   "his declaration had unforeseen repercussions"

   "reverberations of the market crash were felt years later"

   Synonyms: reverberation

Synonyms

backlash, rebound, recoil, reverberation

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in repercussion:

percussioner

Common word forms

repercussions

Words from these letters

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