n.
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(usu. repercussions)
an indirect result of an event or action.
- archaic the recoil of something after impact.
▸an echo or reverberation.
Derivative
Etymology
ME (as a medical term meaning ‘repressing of infection’): from OFr., or from L. repercussio(n-), from repercutere ‘cause to rebound, push back’.
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