1. Verb
To start, roll, bound, spring, or fall back; to take a reverse motion; to be driven or forced backward; to return.
2. Verb
To draw back, as from anything repugnant, distressing, alarming, or the like; to shrink.
3. Verb
To turn or go back; to withdraw one's self; to retire.
4. Verb
To draw or go back.
5. Noun
A starting or falling back; a rebound; a shrinking; as, the recoil of nature, or of the blood.
6. Noun
The state or condition of having recoiled.
7. Noun
Specifically, the reaction or rebounding of a firearm when discharged.
8. Noun
a movement back from an impact
Vocabulary classified under Sociology
9. Noun
the backward jerk of a gun when it is fired
Vocabulary classified under Sociology
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