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Meaning of recoil

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  recoil
      n 1: the backward jerk of a gun when it is fired [syn: {recoil},
           {kick}]
      2: a movement back from an impact [syn: {recoil},
         {repercussion}, {rebound}, {backlash}]
      v 1: draw back, as with fear or pain; "she flinched when they
           showed the slaughtering of the calf" [syn: {flinch},
           {squinch}, {funk}, {cringe}, {shrink}, {wince}, {recoil},
           {quail}]
      2: come back to the originator of an action with an undesired
         effect; "Your comments may backfire and cause you a lot of
         trouble" [syn: {backfire}, {backlash}, {recoil}]
      3: spring back; spring away from an impact; "The rubber ball
         bounced"; "These particles do not resile but they unite after
         they collide" [syn: {bounce}, {resile}, {take a hop},
         {spring}, {bound}, {rebound}, {recoil}, {reverberate},
         {ricochet}]
      4: spring back, as from a forceful thrust; "The gun kicked back
         into my shoulder" [syn: {kick back}, {recoil}, {kick}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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