repercuss

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verb

To drive or beat back.

OriginLatin repercusus →
Scrabble 13
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Meanings

verbrepercuss (third-person singular simple present repercusses, present participle repercussing, simple past and past participle repercussed)

present singular third person repercusses · participle present repercussing · participle past repercussed · past repercussed

  1. transitiveTo drive or beat back.
  2. broadlytransitiveTo reflect; to reverberate.

    Perceiving all the subjacent country, […] to repercuss such a light as I could hardly look against.

    1641 October 13 (Gregorian calendar), John Evelyn, “[Diary entry for 4 October 1641]”, in William Bray, editor, Memoirs, Illustrative of the Life and Writings of John Evelyn, […], 2nd edition, volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […]; and sold by John and Arthur Arch, […], published 1819, →OCLC

Origin

  1. Latinrepercusus
  2. Englishrepercuss

From Latin repercusus, past participle of repercutere (“to drive back”), from re- (“re-”) + percutere. See percussion.

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APA

repercuss. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/repercuss

MLA

“repercuss.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/repercuss. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “repercuss,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/repercuss.

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