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Recoil
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Verb
3. cringe, flinch, funk, quail, recoil, shrink, squinch, wince
draw back, as with fear or pain
Example Sentences:'she flinched when they showed the slaughtering of the calf'
come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect
Example Sentences:'Your comments may backfire and cause you a lot of trouble'
5. bounce, bound, rebound, recoil, resile, reverberate, ricochet, spring, take a hop
spring back; spring away from an impact
Example Sentences:'The rubber ball bounced''These particles do not resile but they unite after they collide'
spring back, as from a forceful thrust
Example Sentences:'The gun kicked back into my shoulder'
WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.
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Recoil
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Recoil
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