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▸ noun: The act of driving back, or the state of being driven back; reflection; reverberation.
▸ noun: (music) Rapid reiteration of the same sound.
▸ noun: (medicine) The subsidence of a tumour or eruption by the action of a repellent.
▸ 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.
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recoil,
backlash,
rebound,
reverberation,
sequela,
ramification,
effect,
result,
aftershock,
redound,
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immediate,
serious,
political,
important,
little,
possible,
direct,
great,
foreign,
negative,
international
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