单词 | recoil |
释义 | recoil (once / 935 pages) vn A recoil is a movement backwards, usually from some force or impact. The recoil of a gun is a backward movement caused by momentum. Your trip to the shooting range might make your mom recoil — from horror, not momentum. Recoil has both a verb and a noun form, meaning any kind of rebound or spring backwards. It doesn’t even have to be from an actual force. You might recoil when you see a snake, or recoil at the thought of having to eat squid. In those cases it’s more like a cringe or a flinch from something that’s scary, disgusting, or painful. Eating squid might in fact be all of those things to you. WORD FAMILYrecoil: recoiled, recoiling, recoilless, recoils+/coil: coiled, coiling, coils, recoil, uncoil/uncoil: uncoiled, uncoiling, uncoils USAGE EXAMPLESIt wasn’t only the considerable shadow of her mother that Fisher recoiled from. Seattle Times(Dec 29, 2016) But judging by that recoil, we're deeming Sunday's round -- and Woods' return -- a success. Golf Digest(Dec 04, 2016) When his left leg reached the floor, he recoiled, and quickly lay back down. Los Angeles Times(Dec 01, 2016) 1v spring back; spring away from an impact Syn|Hypo|Hyper bounce, bound, rebound, resile, reverberate, ricochet, spring, take a hop kick, kick back spring back, as from a forceful thrust bound off, skipbound off one point after another caromrebound after hitting bound, jump, leap, spring move forward by leaps and bounds 2v spring back, as from a forceful thrust Syn|Hyper kick, kick back bounce, bound, rebound, resile, reverberate, ricochet, spring, take a hop spring back; spring away from an impact 3v draw back, as with fear or pain Syn|Hypo|Hyper cringe, flinch, funk, quail, shrink, squinch, wince retract, shrink back pull away from a source of disgust or fear move move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion 4v come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect Syn|Hyper backfire, backlash come about, fall out, go on, hap, happen, occur, pass, pass off, take place come to pass 5n the backward jerk of a gun when it is fired Syn|Hyper kick motion, movement a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something 6n a movement back from an impact Syn|Hypo|Hyper backlash, rebound, repercussion bounce, bouncing rebounding from an impact (or series of impacts) resilience, resiliencyan occurrence of rebounding or springing back carom, ricocheta glancing rebound motion, movement a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something |
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