Recoil
To start, roll, bound, spring, or fall back; to take a reverse motion; to be driven or forced backward; to return.
To draw back, as from anything repugnant, distressing, alarming, or the like; to shrink.
To turn or go back; to withdraw one's self; to retire.
To draw or go back.
A starting or falling back; a rebound; a shrinking; as, the recoil of nature, or of the blood.
The state or condition of having recoiled.
Specifically, the reaction or rebounding of a firearm when discharged.
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Recoil Quotations
Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.
Arthur Conan Doyle
One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
Jack London
I thought this must be obvious to everyone else, as it seemed obvious to me; and that, if once it became apparent that we were on the edge, all the Great Powers would call a halt and recoil from the abyss.
Edward Grey
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Recoil Translations
recoil in French is recul, rebondissement
recoil in Spanish is rechazo
recoil in Swedish is rekyl, rygga tillbaka
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