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

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

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

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..

Rejolt :: Rejolt (n.) A reacting jolt or shock; a rebound or recoil.

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

Recoilingly :: Recoilingly (adv.) In the manner of a recoil.

Kick :: Kick (n.) The recoil of a musket or other firearm, when discharged..

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..

Deadbeat :: Deadbeat (a.) Making a beat without recoil; giving indications by a single beat or excursion; -- said of galvanometers and other instruments in which the needle or index moves to the extent of its deflection and stops with little or no further oscillation.

Abutment :: Abutment (n.) In breech-loading firearms, the block behind the barrel which receives the pressure due to recoil..

Hairspring :: Hairspring (n.) The slender recoil spring which regulates the motion of the balance in a timepiece.

Shrink :: Shrink (n.) The act shrinking; shrinkage; contraction; also, recoil; withdrawal..

Recoil :: Recoil (n.) Specifically, the reaction or rebounding of a firearm when discharged..

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

Recoiler :: Recoiler (n.) One who, or that which, recoils..

Rebut :: Rebut (v. i.) To retire; to recoil.

Recoil :: Recoil (v. t.) To draw or go back.

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

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

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