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

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

Stram :: Stram (v. t.) To spring or recoil with violence.

Reculement :: Reculement (n.) Recoil.

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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

Recoil :: Recoil (n.) A starting or falling back; a rebound; a shrinking; as, the recoil of nature, or of the blood..

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

Recoilment :: Recoilment (n.) Recoil.

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..

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.

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

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

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