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recoil
[ verb ri-koil; noun ree-koil, ri-koil ]
verb (used without object)
- to draw back; start or shrink back, as in alarm, horror, or disgust.
Synonyms: , , ,
- to spring or fly back, as in consequence of force of impact or the force of the discharge, as a firearm.
Synonyms:
- to spring or come back; react (usually followed by on or upon ):
Plots frequently recoil upon the plotters.
- Physics. (of an atom, a nucleus, or a particle) to undergo a change in momentum as a result either of a collision with an atom, a nucleus, or a particle or of the emission of a particle.
noun
- an act of recoiling.
- the distance through which a weapon moves backward after discharging.
recoil
verb
- to jerk back, as from an impact or violent thrust
- often foll by from to draw back in fear, horror, or disgust
to recoil from the sight of blood
- foll byon or upon to go wrong, esp so as to hurt the perpetrator
- (of a nucleus, atom, molecule, or elementary particle) to change momentum as a result of the emission of a photon or particle
noun
- the backward movement of a gun when fired
- the distance moved
- the motion acquired by a particle as a result of its emission of a photon or other particle
- the act of recoiling
Derived Forms
- 谤别藞肠辞颈濒别谤, noun
Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms
- 谤别路肠辞颈濒顎僫苍驳路濒测 adverb
- 苍辞苍路谤别顎僣辞颈濒 noun
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of recoil1
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
The movie seems to recoil from its own hammering dramatics, with Bryce Dessner鈥檚 score toggling uneasily between jocular blues and dour, overcompensating strings.
Raducanu, 22, recoiled in horror when she saw a man - who she had already reported for what was described as "exhibiting fixated behaviour" - in the stands of her match in Dubai last month.
A visibly upset Raducanu recoiled behind the umpire's chair after spotting a man who she had reported for what WTA officials described as "exhibiting fixated behaviour".
Her father, visibly recoiling, told her she looked like a sack of potatoes.
Meanwhile, leaders of the free world recoil in horror from an America that turned overnight from a beacon of liberty to a mouthpiece for Nazis and the KGB.
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