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recoil English

Meaning recoil meaning

What does recoil mean?

recoil

— verb (= flinch) draw back, as with fear or pain she flinched when they showed the slaughtering of the calf — noun the backward jerk of a gun when it is fired — noun a movement back from an impact — verb (= kick back, kick) spring back, as from a forceful thrust The gun kicked back into my shoulder — verb (= backfire) come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect Your comments may backfire and cause you a lot of trouble — verb (= bounce, resile, spring) spring back; spring away from an impact The rubber ball bounced These particles do not resile but they unite after they collide

Synonyms recoil synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as recoil?

recoil English » English

rebound flinch wince kick shrink bounce cringe shrink back ricochet backlash spring retreat quail bound reverberate resile repercussion recede cower backfire start back squinch shudder reaction kick back take a hop step back startle start spring back setback rewind retrogress regress recoiling recession pull back funk falter blench balk withdraw twine turn back throw back taken aback subsidence stop shy away shy at

Topics recoil topics

What do people use recoil to talk about?
Physical actions Physical impact

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Conjugation recoil conjugation

How do you conjugate recoil?

recoil · verb

Examples recoil examples

How do I use recoil in a sentence?

Simple sentences

The recoil reduces the weapon's accuracy.

Movie subtitles

Plus, her reflexes would make her recoil.
A face so disfigured that it causes others to recoil in horror.
One day it will recoil on your own heads.
This size gun gives me better control and less recoil than a.357 Magnum with wadcutters.
However, once again, you have blundered both in regard to the stock dimensions and the recoil pad.
Step back, recoil.
Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.
Hell of a recoil, huh?
Toil! Never recoil!
Give us the courage never to recoil.
You put these together for me to see and recoil at my own guilt.
There's recoil.
Where did the recoil go?
We're going to have to do something about that recoil.
This gun's got a heavy recoil and won't stand still.
I want to recoil unhindered.
And when I recoil alert and refresh, you shall understab!
Long live the lieutenant! You don't have enough recoil.
Now, while Newkirk is supposedly inspecting the guns, you, Carter, will plant one of these little valentines right at the base of the recoil frame.
But watch out, the trigger is very light. After shots will recoil.
Suspicions tend to recoil on those who harbour them.
Don't be afraid of the recoil.
And the recoil from the guns.
Recoil.
We'll bear this ordeal to the end. Give us the courage never to recoil.
Never recoil!
Unhindered recoil.
This size gun gives me better control and less recoil. than a.357 Magnum with wad-cutters.
Toil, toil! Never recoil!
Firstly, the very mention of the idea will cause Sandi to recoil in disgust.
Afraid that if people saw how truly different I was they would recoil from me.
Uh-huh. Beware of the recoil.
Why do you recoil?
With the rear wheels removed you've gained elevation, but without recoil you can't reload.
He didn't recoil or blow me off.
Excellent recoil reduction. Muzzle jump reduced forty percent. Sixty percent improved noise suppression.

News and current affairs

The first made potential partners recoil in fear, the second made them shrink in confusion.
Europe is trapped in a vicious circle: those employed recoil from more flexibility and the risk of losing their jobs.
But most of us are likely to recoil at the methods they used in their work as intellectuals: caricature, deception, and even fabrication.
Ukrainians recoil, in anger and horror, at the very idea of dividing the nation.
Actually, only those imbued with the optimistic spirit of social science recoil.
But, as that past becomes unearthed and its crimes exposed, many recoil from the consequences.
The SPD will recoil at the prospect, sit on the fence, and finally give in, because Merkel has a powerful disciplinary instrument: she could call a new election, in which the CDU would probably win an outright majority.

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