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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
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- 1noun
The act of driving back, or the state of being driven back; reflection; reverberation; as, the repercussion of sound.
- 2noun
Rapid reiteration of the same sound.
- 3noun
The subsidence of a tumor or eruption by the action of a repellent.
- 4noun
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.
- 5noun
a movement back from an impact
- 6noun
a remote or indirect consequence of some action
"his declaration had unforeseen repercussions"
"reverberations of the market crash were felt years later"
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