Definition of recoil

"recoil" in the noun sense

1. recoil, kick

the backward jerk of a gun when it is fired

2. recoil, repercussion, rebound, backlash

a movement back from an impact

"recoil" in the verb sense

1. flinch, squinch, funk, cringe, shrink, wince, recoil, quail

draw back, as with fear or pain

"she flinched when they showed the slaughtering of the calf"

2. backfire, backlash, recoil

come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect

"Your comments may backfire and cause you a lot of trouble"

"the political movie backlashed on the Democrats"

3. bounce, resile, take a hop, spring, bound, rebound, recoil, reverberate, ricochet

spring back spring away from an impact

"The rubber ball bounced"

"These particles do not resile but they unite after they collide"

4. kick back, recoil, kick

spring back, as from a forceful thrust

"The gun kicked back into my shoulder"

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Quotations for recoil

We must recoil a little, to the end we may leap the better. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives their feelings, - as some savage tribes determine the power of their muskets by their recoil; that being considered best which fairly prostrates the purchaser. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

There is a hand that has no heart in it, there is a claw or paw, a flipper or fin, a bit of wet cloth to take hold of, a piece of unbaked dough on the cook's trencher, a cold clammy thing we recoil from, or greedy clutch with the heat of sin, which we drop as a burning coal. What a scale from the talon to the horn of plenty, is this human palmleaf! Sometimes it is what a knifeshaped, thin-bladed tool we dare not grasp, or like a poisonous thing we shake off, or unclean member, which, white as it may look, we feel polluted by! [ C. A. Bartol ]

recoil in Scrabble®

The word recoil is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 8

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters recoil:

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recoil in Words With Friends™

The word recoil is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 10

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Words containing the sequence recoil

Words that start with recoil (7 words)

Words with recoil in them (2 words)

Words that end with recoil (1 word)

Word Growth involving recoil

Shorter words in recoil

oil coil

re

Longer words containing recoil

recoiled

recoiler recoilers

recoiling unrecoiling

recoilless

recoils