repercussion
Noun
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A remote or indirect consequence of some action (synset 111436836)
"his declaration had unforeseen repercussions"; "reverberations of the market crash were felt years later"is a type of: consequence, effect, event, issue, outcome, result, upshot - a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenonsame as: reverberation
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A movement back from an impact (synset 107364792)
is a type of: motion, movement - a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of somethingsubtypes:
- bounce, bouncing - rebounding from an impact (or series of impacts)
- resilience, resiliency - an occurrence of rebounding or springing back
- carom, ricochet - a glancing rebound
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