Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of the nature of repercussion; causing repercussion or reflection.
- Repellent.
- Driven back; reverberated.
- noun A repellent.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Tending or able to repercuss; having the power of sending back; causing to reverberate.
- adjective obsolete Repellent.
- adjective Driven back; rebounding; reverberated.
- noun obsolete A repellent.
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- noun obsolete A
repellent .
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Examples
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As a Canadian who only peripherally experienced the repercussive fear elicited by al Qaeda's actions, I have found myself waking up each morning for the last week ruminating on what I was doing through the hours before those two planes tore a hole in the New York skyline.
Rachel Anne Farquharson: George Walker's Book of Hours: The Significance of a Decade Passed Rachel Anne Farquharson 2011
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As a Canadian who only peripherally experienced the repercussive fear elicited by al Qaeda's actions, I have found myself waking up each morning for the last week ruminating on what I was doing through the hours before those two planes tore a hole in the New York skyline.
Rachel Anne Farquharson: George Walker's Book of Hours: The Significance of a Decade Passed Rachel Anne Farquharson 2011
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As a Canadian who only peripherally experienced the repercussive fear elicited by al Qaeda's actions, I have found myself waking up each morning for the last week ruminating on what I was doing through the hours before those two planes tore a hole in the New York skyline.
Rachel Anne Farquharson: George Walker's Book of Hours: The Significance of a Decade Passed Rachel Anne Farquharson 2011
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As a Canadian who only peripherally experienced the repercussive fear elicited by al Qaeda's actions, I have found myself waking up each morning for the last week ruminating on what I was doing through the hours before those two planes tore a hole in the New York skyline.
Rachel Anne Farquharson: George Walker's Book of Hours: The Significance of a Decade Passed Rachel Anne Farquharson 2011
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As a Canadian who only peripherally experienced the repercussive fear elicited by al Qaeda's actions, I have found myself waking up each morning for the last week ruminating on what I was doing through the hours before those two planes tore a hole in the New York skyline.
Rachel Anne Farquharson: George Walker's Book of Hours: The Significance of a Decade Passed Rachel Anne Farquharson 2011
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The effect of everyone's actions has repercussive and cascading effects.
Dana Ullman: Our Planet, Our Selves: The Earth's Symptoms and What to Do About Them 2010
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The effect of everyone's actions has repercussive and cascading effects.
Dana Ullman: Our Planet, Our Selves: The Earth's Symptoms and What to Do About Them 2010
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OK, maybe that's an exaggeration, but everything from The Charlie Rose Show to The Colbert Report has featured Moyo and her book in recent weeks, with repercussive effects in print and online.
Kristi York Wooten: The Sachs-Moyo-Easterly Aid Debate: An Activist's Perspective 2009
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As their enforcers the God Squad goons insure everyone behaves through excess force, abuse and murder, Kyra wonders how she can escape this atrocity that feels like a rape of her soul and soon her body without causing her family repercussive atrocities.
The Chosen One-Carol Lynch Williams « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews 2009
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His desire to bring the immediacy of his perception to audiences, his exhortation to "stop thinking!" has endeared him to those people fascinated by the wild individuality of the condition, the repercussive echos that it brings to the study of the brain.
Synesthesia: the Flavor of Music, the Color of Touch Heather McDougal 2007
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