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Recoil : (noun)
1: the backward jerk of a gun when it is fired [syn: kick]
2: a movement back from an impact [syn: repercussion, rebound,
backlash]
(verb)
1: draw back, as with fear or pain; "she flinched when they
showed the slaughtering of the calf" [syn: flinch, squinch,
funk, cringe, shrink, wince, quail]
2: spring back; spring away from an impact; "The rubber ball
bounced"; "These particles do not resile but they unite
after they collide" [syn: bounce, resile, take a hop,
spring, bound, rebound, reverberate, ricochet]
3: spring back, as from a forceful thrust; "The gun kicked back
into my shoulder" [syn: kick back, kick]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Recoil : \Re*coil"\, v. t.
To draw or go back. [Obs.] --Spenser.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Recoil : \Re*coil"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Recoiled; p. pr. & vb.
n. Recoiling.] [OE. recoilen, F. reculer, fr. L. pref. re-
re- _ culus the fundament. The English word was perhaps
influenced in form by accoil.]
1. To start, roll, bound, spring, or fall back; to take a
reverse motion; to be driven or forced backward; to
return.
Evil on itself shall back recoil. --Milton.
The solemnity of her demeanor made it impossible . .
. that we should recoil into our ordinary spirits.
--De Quincey.
2. To draw back, as from anything repugnant, distressing,
alarming, or the like; to shrink. --Shak.
3. To turn or go back; to withdraw one's self; to retire.
[Obs.] ``To your bowers recoil.'' --Spenser.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Recoil : \Re*coil"\, n.
1. A starting or falling back; a rebound; a shrinking; as,
the recoil of nature, or of the blood.
2. The state or condition of having recoiled.
The recoil from formalism is skepticism. --F. W.
Robertson.
3. Specifically, the reaction or rebounding of a firearm when
discharged.
Recoil dynamometer (Gunnery), an instrument for measuring
the force of the recoil of a firearm.
Recoil escapement See the Note under Escapement.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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