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Repercuss [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To beat back.

Repercuss [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To drive or beat back; hence, to reflect; to reverberate.

Repercussed [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Repercuss

Repercussing [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Repercuss

Repercussion [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. The act of driving back; reverberation; as the repercussion of sound.

2. In music, frequent repetition of the same sound.

Repercussion [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The act of driving back, or the state of being driven back; reflection; reverberation; as, the repercussion of sound.

2. Rapid reiteration of the same sound.

3. The subsidence of a tumor or eruption by the action of a repellent.

4. 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.

Repercussive [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Driving back; having the power of sending back; causing to reverberate; as repercussive rocks.

2. Repellent; as a repercussive medicine. [Not in use.]

3. Driven back; reverberated.

Repercussive [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A repellent. obsolete

Repercussive [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Tending or able to repercuss; having the power of sending back; causing to reverberate.

2. Repellent.

3. Driven back; rebounding; reverberated.

Repercussive [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A repellent.