| VERB | motion | recoil, flinch, squinch, funk, cringe, shrink, wince, quail | draw back, as with fear or pain |
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| social | recoil, backfire, backlash | come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect | |
| motion | recoil, bounce, resile, take a hop, spring, bound, rebound, reverberate, ricochet | spring back | |
| contact | recoil, kick back, kick | spring back, as from a forceful thrust | |
| NOUN | event | recoil, kick | the backward jerk of a gun / gun when it is fired |
| event | recoil, repercussion, rebound, backlash | a movement back from an impact |
| Sounds | riykoy'l | |
|---|---|---|
| Rhymes | airfoil ... uncoil: 21 rhymes with oyl... | |
| Meaning | The backward jerk of a gun / gun when it is fired. | |
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| Synonym | kick | |
| Broader | movement, motion | A natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something |
| Spanish | retroceso | |
| Adjectives | recoilless | of or being a weapon that is designed to minimize recoil |
| Verbs | recoil | spring back, as from a forceful thrust |
| Meaning | A movement back from an impact. | |
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| Synonyms | repercussion, rebound, backlash | |
| Narrower | bounce, bouncing | rebounding from an impact (or series of impacts) |
| resilience, resiliency | An occurrence of rebounding or springing back | |
| ricochet, carom | A glancing rebound | |
| Broader | movement, motion | A natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something |
| Spanish | culatazo, repercusión, retroceso | |
| Catalan | repercussió, retrocés | |
| Verbs | recoil | spring back |
| Meaning | draw back, as with fear or pain. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s PP | |
| Synonyms | flinch, squinch, funk, cringe, shrink, wince, quail | |
| Narrower | shrink back, retract | pull away from a source of disgust or fear |
| Broader | move | Move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion |
| Spanish | contraerse, encogerse, reaccionar, recular, retroceder | |
| Catalan | acovardir-se, contreure's, encongir-se, recular, retrocedir | |
| Meaning | Come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect. | |
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| Pattern | Something ----s | |
| Synonyms | backfire, backlash | |
| Broader | happen, hap, go on, pass off, occur, pass, fall out, come about, take place | Come to pass |
| Meaning | spring back; spring away from an impact. | |
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| Pattern | Something ----s; Something is ----ing PP | |
| Synonyms | bounce, resile, take a hop, spring, bound, rebound, reverberate, ricochet | |
| Narrower | carom | rebound after hitting |
| kick back, recoil, kick | spring back, as from a forceful thrust | |
| skip, bound off | bound off one point after another | |
| Broader | jump, leap, bound, spring | Move forward by leaps and bounds |
| Spanish | rebotar | |
| Catalan | rebotar, rebotre | |
| Nouns | recoil | a movement back from an impact |
| Meaning | spring back, as from a forceful thrust. | |
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| Pattern | Something ----s | |
| Synonyms | kick back, kick | |
| Broader | bounce, resile, take a hop, spring, bound, rebound, recoil, reverberate, ricochet | spring back |
| Spanish | retroceder | |
| Nouns | recoil | the backward jerk of a gun / gun when it is fired |
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