Definitions for recoil

recoil re·coil

Spelling: [verb ri-koil; noun ree-koil, ri- Recoil is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 114 anagrams from letters in recoil (ceilor).

Definitions for recoil

noun

  1. an act of recoiling.
  2. the distance through which a weapon moves backward after discharging.

verb (used without object)

  1. to draw back; start or shrink back, as in alarm, horror, or disgust.
  2. to spring or fly back, as in consequence of force of impact or the force of the discharge, as a firearm.
  3. to spring or come back; react (usually followed by on or upon):
  4. Physics. (of an atom, a nucleus, or a particle) to undergo a change in momentum as a result either of a collision with an atom, a nucleus, or a particle or of the emission of a particle.

verb (used with or without object)

  1. to coil again.

Origin of recoil

1175-1225; Middle English recoilen, reculen (v.) Old French reculer, equivalent to re- re- + -culer, verbal derivative of cul rump, buttocks; see

Examples for recoil

You permit your heart (little did I think it was such a froward one) to recoil.

The recoil, catching him in a bad posture, knocked him backward.

Doubtless the self-respect of the woman was in no way wounded by the master's recoil.

Large numbers of Israelis recoil at such violence, according to polls.

I noticed when watching Biathlon that the guns seem to have no recoil when fired.

If you shove a big government program down their throats they will recoil.

When events occur which disturb my life, I always have a movement of recoil.

Erupting into spontaneous song and having strangers fully embrace it rather than recoil?

“Technically, all guns have recoil,” Steve told me via email.

Shocked by the sound of my own name, I was ready to recoil abashed.

Word Value for recoil
Scrable

8

Words with friends

10

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