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