Dictionary Entry
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
- 1intransitive verb
To start, roll, bound, spring, or fall back; to take a reverse motion; to be driven or forced backward; to return.
- 2intransitive verb
To draw back, as from anything repugnant, distressing, alarming, or the like; to shrink.
- 3intransitive verb
To turn or go back; to withdraw one's self; to retire.
- 4transitive verb
To draw or go back.
- 5noun
A starting or falling back; a rebound; a shrinking; as, the recoil of nature, or of the blood.
- 6noun
The state or condition of having recoiled.
- 7noun
Specifically, the reaction or rebounding of a firearm when discharged.
- 8noun
a movement back from an impact
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- 9noun
the backward jerk of a gun when it is fired
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- 10verb
spring back, as from a forceful thrust
"The gun kicked back into my shoulder"
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- 11verb
spring back; spring away from an impact
"The rubber ball bounced"
"These particles do not resile but they unite after they collide"
- 12verb
draw back, as with fear or pain
"she flinched when they showed the slaughtering of the calf"
- 13verb
come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect
"Your comments may backfire and cause you a lot of trouble"
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