Definition of recoil

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

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Resilient :: Resilient (a.) Leaping back; rebounding; recoiling.
Kick :: Kick (v. i.) To recoil; -- said of a musket, cannon, etc..
Recoil :: Recoil (v. t.) To draw or go back.
Recoiler :: Recoiler (n.) One who, or that which, recoils..
Counterbuff :: Counterbuff (n.) A blow in an opposite direction; a stroke that stops motion or cause a recoil.
Ugh :: Ugh (interj.) An exclamation expressive of disgust, horror, or recoil. Its utterance is usually accompanied by a shudder..
Shrink :: Shrink (n.) The act shrinking; shrinkage; contraction; also, recoil; withdrawal..
Shock :: Shock (v.) To strike with surprise, terror, horror, or disgust; to cause to recoil; as, his violence shocked his associates..
Rebut :: Rebut (v. i.) To retire; to recoil.
Shrink :: Shrink (v. i.) To withdraw or retire, as from danger; to decline action from fear; to recoil, as in fear, horror, or distress..
Hairspring :: Hairspring (n.) The slender recoil spring which regulates the motion of the balance in a timepiece.
Stram :: Stram (v. t.) To spring or recoil with violence.
Recoiling :: Recoiling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Recoi.
Irresilient :: Irresilient (a.) Not resilient; not recoiling or rebounding; inelastic.
Shocking :: Shocking (a.) Causing to shake or tremble, as by a blow; especially, causing to recoil with horror or disgust; extremely offensive or disgusting..
Recoil :: Recoil (v. i.) To start, roll, bound, spring, or fall back; to take a reverse motion; to be driven or forced backward; to return..
Recoilment :: Recoilment (n.) Recoil.
Reculement :: Reculement (n.) Recoil.
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..
Resile :: Resile (v. i.) To start back; to recoil; to recede from a purpose.
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