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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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..

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

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

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

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

Reculement :: Reculement (n.) Recoil.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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