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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

aftermath, antagonism, antipathy, backfire, backlash, backlashing, backwash, boomerang, bounce, bound, cantando, carom, clashing, clout, collision, concussion, conflict, confutation, consequence, contradiction, contraposition, contrariety, contrecoup, counteraction, counterposition, counterworking, crankiness, crotchetiness, crunch, demilegato, dissent, echo, effect, execution, expression, fallout, fingering, force, friction, glissando, impact, impress, impression, imprint, interference, intonation, kick, kickback, legato, mark, mezzo staccato, music-making, nonconformity, opposition, opposure, oppugnance, oppugnancy, outcome, parlando, percussion, performance, perverseness, pianism, pizzicato, print, reaction, rebound, rebuff, recalcitrance, recalcitration, recoil, reflex, rendering, rendition, renitency, repugnance, repulse, resilience, resistance, response, result, reverberation, revolt, ricochet, rubato, shock, slur, smash, spiccato, spring, staccato, swimming upstream, touch, upshot

Dictionary Results for repercussion:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

repercussion
    n 1: a remote or indirect consequence of some action; "his
         declaration had unforeseen repercussions"; "reverberations
         of the market crash were felt years later" [syn:
         repercussion, reverberation]
    2: a movement back from an impact [syn: recoil,
       repercussion, rebound, backlash]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Repercussion \Re`per*cus"sion\ (-k?sh"?n), n. [L. repercussio:
   cf. F. r['e]percussion.]
   1. The act of driving back, or the state of being driven
      back; reflection; reverberation; as, the repercussion of
      sound.
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            Ever echoing back in endless repercussion. --Hare.
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   2. (Mus.) Rapid reiteration of the same sound.
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   3. (Med.) The subsidence of a tumor or eruption by the action
      of a repellent. --Dunglison.
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   4. (Obstetrics) 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.
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