Associations to the word «repercussions»

Wiktionary

REPERCUSSION, noun. A consequence or ensuing result of some action.
REPERCUSSION, noun. The act of driving back, or the state of being driven back; reflection; reverberation.
REPERCUSSION, noun. (music) Rapid reiteration of the same sound.
REPERCUSSION, noun. (medicine) The subsidence of a tumour or eruption by the action of a repellent.
REPERCUSSION, noun. (obstetrics) In a vaginal examination, the act of imparting through the uterine wall with the finger a shock to the foetus, so that it bounds upward, and falls back again against the examining finger.

Dictionary definition

REPERCUSSION, noun. A remote or indirect consequence of some action; "his declaration had unforeseen repercussions"; "reverberations of the market crash were felt years later".
REPERCUSSION, noun. A movement back from an impact.

Wise words

We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.
Florence Scovel Shinn