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Definition of Recoil

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. Related Definitions: Alarming, Anything, As, Back, Backward, Be, Blood, Bound, Condition, Discharged, Distressing, Draw, Driven, Fall, Falling, Firearm, Forced, From, Go, Having, Like, Motion, Nature, Of, One, Or, Reaction, Rebound, Recoil, Recoiled, Repugnant, Retire, Return, Reverse, Roll, Self, Shrink, Shrinking, Specifically, Spring, Start, Starting, State, Take, The, To, Turn, When, Withdraw

Recoil Quotations 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 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

Recoil Translations recoil in French is recul, rebondissement recoil in Spanish is rechazo recoil in Swedish is rekyl, rygga tillbaka

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