Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To beat or drive back; send back; reflect.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To drive or beat back; hence, to reflect; to reverberate.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
drive orbeat back. - verb transitive, by extension To
reflect ; toreverberate .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb cause repercussions; have an unwanted effect
Etymologies
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Latin repercusus, past participle of repercutere to drive back; prefix re- re- + percutere. See percussion.
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For firsts, I know this will repercuss back onto the way this Bynum-less team is perceived.
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