Thesaurus: recoil

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1. v. i. To start, roll, bound, spring, or fall back; to take a reverse motion; to be driven or forced backward; to return.
2. v. i. To draw back, as from anything repugnant, distressing, alarming, or the like; to shrink.
3. v. i. To turn or go back; to withdraw one's self; to retire.
4. v. t. To draw or go back.
5. n. A starting or falling back; a rebound; a shrinking; as, the recoil of nature, or of the blood.
6. n. The state or condition of having recoiled.
7. n. Specifically, the reaction or rebounding of a firearm when discharged.
8. n. the backward jerk of a gun when it is fired
9. n. a movement back from an impact
10. v. draw back, as with fear or pain
11. v. come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect
12. v. spring back; spring away from an impact