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Repercuss

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To drive or beat back. transitive
  2. 2
    cause repercussions; have an unwanted effect wordnet
  3. 3
    To reflect; to reverberate. broadly, transitive

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

Etymology

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

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