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Irresilient :: Irresilient (a.) Not resilient; not recoiling or rebounding; inelastic.

Reculement :: Reculement (n.) Recoil.

Dead-stroke :: Dead-stroke (a.) Making a stroke without recoil; deadbeat.

Recoiling :: Recoiling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Recoi.

Recoil :: Recoil (n.) The state or condition of having recoiled.

Counterbuff :: Counterbuff (n.) A blow in an opposite direction; a stroke that stops motion or cause a recoil.

Resile :: Resile (v. i.) To start back; to recoil; to recede from a purpose.

Benthamism :: Benthamism (n.) That phase of the doctrine of utilitarianism taught by Jeremy Bentham; the doctrine that the morality of actions is estimated and determined by their utility; also, the theory that the sensibility to pleasure and the recoil from pain are the only motives which influence human desires and actions, and that these are the sufficient explanation of ethical and jural conceptions..

Kick :: Kick (v. i.) To recoil; -- said of a musket, cannon, etc..

Recoil :: Recoil (v. i.) To turn or go back; to withdraw one's self; to retire.

Ugh :: Ugh (interj.) An exclamation expressive of disgust, horror, or recoil. Its utterance is usually accompanied by a shudder..

Shock :: Shock (v.) To strike with surprise, terror, horror, or disgust; to cause to recoil; as, his violence shocked his associates..

Recoil :: Recoil (v. i.) To draw back, as from anything repugnant, distressing, alarming, or the like; to shrink..

Recoilment :: Recoilment (n.) Recoil.

Breeching :: Breeching (n.) A strong rope rove through the cascabel of a cannon and secured to ringbolts in the ship's side, to limit the recoil of the gun when it is discharged..

Recule :: Recule (v. i.) To recoil.

Recoiled :: Recoiled (imp. & p. p.) of Recoi.

Shrink :: Shrink (v. i.) To withdraw or retire, as from danger; to decline action from fear; to recoil, as in fear, horror, or distress..

Resilient :: Resilient (a.) Leaping back; rebounding; recoiling.

Shocking :: Shocking (a.) Causing to shake or tremble, as by a blow; especially, causing to recoil with horror or disgust; extremely offensive or disgusting..

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