recoil

recoil is a 6-letter English word with 13 senses as intransitive verb, transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To start, roll, bound, spring, or fall back; to take a reverse motion; to be driven or forced backward; to return. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 10 · 13 senses

Definitions

1. intransitive verb. To start, roll, bound, spring, or fall back; to take a reverse motion; to be driven or forced backward; to return.
2. intransitive verb. To draw back, as from anything repugnant, distressing, alarming, or the like; to shrink.
3. intransitive verb. To turn or go back; to withdraw one's self; to retire.
4. transitive 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

   Synonyms: backlash, rebound, repercussion

9. noun. the backward jerk of a gun when it is fired

   Synonyms: kick

10. verb. spring back, as from a forceful thrust

    "The gun kicked back into my shoulder"

    Synonyms: kick

11. verb. spring back; spring away from an impact

    "The rubber ball bounced"

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

    Synonyms: bounce, bound, rebound, resile, reverberate, ricochet, spring

12. verb. draw back, as with fear or pain

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

    Synonyms: cringe, flinch, funk, quail, shrink, squinch, wince

13. verb. come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect

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

    Synonyms: backfire, backlash

Synonyms

backlash, rebound, repercussion, kick, bounce, bound, resile, reverberate, ricochet, spring, cringe, flinch, funk, quail, shrink, squinch, wince, backfire

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in recoil:

coiler

Common word forms

recoils, recoiled, recoiler, recoiling, recoilless, recoilment

Words from these letters

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