The return of a force or impact; an impact made in response to or as a consequence of another. Obsolete.

figurative. A (usually undesired) thing remaining or left after the end or exit of something; an unwelcome consequence or effect.

(Usually in plural) A harmful or deleterious effect, an unpleasant consequence.

A bad or injurious effect.

A secondary, unintended, and typically undesirable effect of an action, situation, etc.

dialect. The brunt or consequences of some action. (Cf. racket, n.2 phrases.)

The process of involving or fact of being involved in some condition, etc.

The motion of a receding wave; a backward current. Also transferred and figurative.

transferred and figurative. An unpleasant aftermath or reaction; depression, ‘blues’; clamour, uproar.

transferred and figurative.

A strong reaction or repercussion; an undesirable result.

That which spills over; the process of spilling over; (an) incidental development; a consequence, a repercussion, a by-product.

The (typically adverse or unexpected) consequences of an action or event; the aftermath. Often with from.

Originally U.S. An influence or effect (usually positive) which is transmitted to or ‘rubs off’ on a person or thing. Also as a mass noun. Cf. to r…

figurative. Something likened to a booby prize in being merely a minor consolation, or (now more usually) an unintended, unwanted, or unappealing…

figurative (originally and chiefly British). An act that unintentionally harms one's own interests.