repercussions

Meaning of repercussions

noun
  1. A consequence or ensuing result of some action.
    You realize this little stunt of yours is going to have some pretty serious repercussions.
  2. The act of driving back, or the state of being driven back; reflection; reverberation.
    the repercussion of sound
  3. Rapid reiteration of the same sound.
  4. The subsidence of a tumour or eruption by the action of a repellent.
  5. In a vaginal examination, the act of imparting through the uterine wall with the finger a shock to the foetus, so that it bounds upward, and falls back again against the examining finger.

Information about repercussions

  • It is a name.
  • The singular form of repercussions is: repercussion.
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Hyphenation of repercussions

reper-cus-sions

  • It consists of 3 syllables and 13 chars.
  • repercussions is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

repercussions synonyms

Meaning :

aftereffect, consequence

Words that rhyme with repercussions

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