verb
withdraw, turn away, shrink from, draw back, step back, pull back, start back, flinch, start, demur, blink, shirk, falter, dodge, swerve, wince, cringe, duck, quail; see also retreat 1.
See recoil in Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus II
To jerk backward, as a gun upon firing:
To draw away involuntarily, usually out of fear or disgust:
An act of drawing back in an involuntary or instinctive fashion:
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