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Recoil

To start, roll, bound, spring, or fall back; to take a reverse motion; to be driven or forced backward; to return.

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Broader term 16

Bounce 76% connected

To strike or thump, so as to rebound, or to make a sudden noise; a knock loudly.

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Bound 76% connected

of Bind

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Hap 76% connected

To clothe; to wrap.

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Happen 76% connected

To come by chance; to come without previous expectation; to fall out.

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Jump 76% connected

A kind of loose jacket for men.

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Leap 76% connected

A basket.

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Motion 76% connected

The act, process, or state of changing place or position; movement; the passing of a body from one place or position to another, whether voluntary or…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Move 76% connected

To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry, convey, draw, or push from one place to another; to impel; to stir; as…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Movement 76% connected

The act of moving; change of place or posture; transference, by any means, from one situation to another; natural or appropriate motion; progress; ad…

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Occur 76% connected

To meet; to clash.

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Pass 76% connected

To go; to move; to proceed; to be moved or transferred from one point to another; to make a transit; -- usually with a following adverb or adverbal p…

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Rebound 76% connected

To spring back; to start back; to be sent back or reverberated by elastic force on collision with another body; as, a rebounding echo.

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Resile 76% connected

To start back; to recoil; to recede from a purpose.

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Reverberate 76% connected

Reverberant.

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Ricochet 76% connected

A rebound or skipping, as of a ball along the ground when a gun is fired at a low angle of elevation, or of a fiat stone thrown along the surface of…

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Spring 76% connected

To leap; to bound; to jump.

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Narrower term 6

Bounce 76% connected

To strike or thump, so as to rebound, or to make a sudden noise; a knock loudly.

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Bouncing 76% connected

of Bounce

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Carom 76% connected

A shot in which the ball struck with the cue comes in contact with two or more balls on the table; a hitting of two or more balls with the player's b…

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Resilience 76% connected

Alt. of Resiliency

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Resiliency 76% connected

The act of resiling, springing back, or rebounding; as, the resilience of a ball or of sound.

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Ricochet 76% connected

A rebound or skipping, as of a ball along the ground when a gun is fired at a low angle of elevation, or of a fiat stone thrown along the surface of…

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Manner of action 4

Carom 76% connected

A shot in which the ball struck with the cue comes in contact with two or more balls on the table; a hitting of two or more balls with the player's b…

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Kick 76% connected

To strike, thrust, or hit violently with the foot; as, a horse kicks a groom; a man kicks a dog.

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Retract 76% connected

To draw back; to draw up or shorten; as, the cat can retract its claws; to retract a muscle.

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Skip 76% connected

A basket. See Skep.

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Derivationally related 2

Carom 74% connected

A shot in which the ball struck with the cue comes in contact with two or more balls on the table; a hitting of two or more balls with the player's b…

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Carom 74% connected

A shot in which the ball struck with the cue comes in contact with two or more balls on the table; a hitting of two or more balls with the player's b…

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Open English WordNet records a derivational relationship between these word forms.

Synonym 17

Backlash 92% connected

The distance through which one part of connected machinery, as a wheel, piston, or screw, can be moved without moving the connected parts, resulting…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Bounce 92% connected

To strike or thump, so as to rebound, or to make a sudden noise; a knock loudly.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Bound 92% connected

of Bind

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Cringe 92% connected

To draw one's self together as in fear or servility; to bend or crouch with base humility; to wince; hence; to make court in a degrading manner; to f…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Flinch 92% connected

To withdraw from any suffering or undertaking, from pain or danger; to fail in doing or perserving; to show signs of yielding or of suffering; to shr…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Funk 92% connected

An offensive smell; a stench.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Kick 92% connected

To strike, thrust, or hit violently with the foot; as, a horse kicks a groom; a man kicks a dog.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Quail 92% connected

To die; to perish; hence, to wither; to fade.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Rebound 92% connected

To spring back; to start back; to be sent back or reverberated by elastic force on collision with another body; as, a rebounding echo.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Repercussion 92% connected

The act of driving back, or the state of being driven back; reflection; reverberation; as, the repercussion of sound.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Resile 92% connected

To start back; to recoil; to recede from a purpose.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Reverberate 92% connected

Reverberant.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Ricochet 92% connected

A rebound or skipping, as of a ball along the ground when a gun is fired at a low angle of elevation, or of a fiat stone thrown along the surface of…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Shrink 92% connected

To wrinkle, bend, or curl; to shrivel; hence, to contract into a less extent or compass; to gather together; to become compacted.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Spring 92% connected

To leap; to bound; to jump.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Squinch 92% connected

A small arch thrown across the corner of a square room to support a superimposed mass, as where an octagonal spire or drum rests upon a square tower;…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Wince 92% connected

To shrink, as from a blow, or from pain; to flinch; to start back.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

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