The act of starting or falling back; a shrinking; revolt.
Word of the Day: Catachrestical
Starting or falling back; retiring; shrinking.
With starting back or retrocession.
In the manner of a recoil.
Recoil Roget’s Thesaurus §277
N. recoil, reaction, retroaction, revulsion, bounce, # rebound, ricochet, repercussion, recalcitration, kick, contrecoup, springing back, elasticity, reflection, reflexion, reflex, reflux, reverberation, rebuff, repulse, return, ducks and drakes, boomerang, spring, reactionist, elastic collision, coefficient of restitution
V. recoil, react, spring back, fly back, bounce back, bound back, rebound, reverberate, repercuss, recalcitrate, echo, ricochet
Adv. on the rebound, on the recoil
Phr. for every action there is a reaction equal in force and opposite in direction, 4, motion with reference to direction
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