Recoil

[re·coil]

A recoil is a movement backwards, usually from some force or impact. The recoil of a gun is a backward movement caused by momentum. Your trip to the shooting range might make your mom recoil from horror, not momentum.

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To start, roll, bound, spring, or fall back; to take a reverse motion; to be driven or forced backward; to return.

Noun
a movement back from an impact

Noun
the backward jerk of a gun when it is fired

Verb
spring back, as from a forceful thrust; "The gun kicked back into my shoulder"

Verb
spring back; spring away from an impact; "The rubber ball bounced"; "These particles do not resile but they unite after they collide"

Verb
draw back, as with fear or pain; "she flinched when they showed the slaughtering of the calf"

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v. i.
To start, roll, bound, spring, or fall back; to take a reverse motion; to be driven or forced backward; to return.

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

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

v. t.
To draw or go back.

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

n.
The state or condition of having recoiled.

n.
Specifically, the reaction or rebounding of a firearm when discharged.

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.
The solemnity of her demeanor made it impossible . . . that we should recoil into our ordinary spirits.
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.

Recoil

Re*coil", v. t. To draw or go back. [Obs.] Spenser.

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.
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.

To start, roll, bound, spring, or fall back; to take a reverse motion; to be driven or forced backward; to return.

To draw or go back.

A starting or falling back; a rebound; a shrinking; as, the recoil of nature, or of the blood.

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Usage Examples

Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.

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