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Another word for recoil

recoil Synonyms

recoil

v.

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.

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Another word for recoil

verb

To jerk backward, as a gun upon firing:
rebound. See forward
To draw away involuntarily, usually out of fear or disgust:
blench¹, cringe, flinch, quail, shrink, shy¹, start, wince. See approach, seek

noun

An act of drawing back in an involuntary or instinctive fashion:

cringe, flinch, shrink, wince. See approach, seek

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Sofia forced herself not to recoil, afraid to touch anyone.
Anything different doesn't seem as human to us and we instinctively recoil from it.
The introduction of trunnionless guns recoiling axially through a fixed cradle enabled sights to be attached to the non-recoil parts of the mounting, so that the necessity of removing a delicate telescopic sight every round disappeared, and Q?'
After a certain discount for friction and the recoil of the gun, the net work realized by the powder-gas as the shot advances AM is represented by the area Acpm, and this is equated to the kinetic energy e of the shot, in foot-tons, (I) e d2 I + p, a in which the factor 4(k 2 /d 2)tan 2 S represents the fraction due to the rotation of the shot, of diameter d and axial radius of gyration k, and S represents the angle of the rifling; this factor may be ignored in the subsequent calculations as small, less than I %.
Between pantheism and Unitarianism he seems to have balanced till his thirty-fifth year, always tending towards the former in virtue of the recoil from "anthropomorphism" which originally took him to Unitarianism.

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