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Words and phrases that have a meaning related to recoil:   (182 results)

Often used in the same context:
wince, cringe, shudder, muzzle velocity, sneer, recoilless, blanch, squirm, smoothbore, reflex, startle, airburst, weepiness, bristle, pavlovian, uzis, revulsion, scoff, tremble, muzzle, gatling gun, flail, torques, cocking, peashooter, quiver, kickdown, appall, gape, squeal, judder, repulsion, clonk, impassivity, autoloading, checkering, fisheye, snoot, millivolt, semiautomatics, chafe, projectile, tailstock, snicker, atomizing, solar plexus, tommy gun, twitch, sabots, titter, suppressors, desensitizing, whine, blunderbuss, eversion, gibber, pricker, lethality, blowback, gag reflex, pistol grip, intensifier, knee jerk, lever, defenselessness, painfulness, turret, startle reflex, throttle, palsied, foreshortening, supination, tu quoque, shriek, ineloquent, impalement, clingers, grapeshot, piston rod, ewww, guffaw, yawing, smirks, handgrip, naysay, dread, firer, bunghole, cogging, saccade, microphonic, vaporization, buckshot, latent hostility, vibration, grotesqueness, scattergun, cower, detents, groan, minie ball, chortle, rebound, stiffening, prostration, remorse, yielding, perturbation, pull, strain, attrition, effervescence, exhaustion, fall, impulsion, letdown, quickening, bending, darkening, flurry, ionization, quenching, photochemical, scattering, fermi, fusing, modulation, nonthermal, photon, quantal, relaxation, thermionic, absorption, cooling, correlation, dispersive, electrochemical, excitation, fission, ignition

More specific:
bounce, bouncing, bound off, carom, glance, kick, kick back, retract, ricochet, shrink back, skip

Appears in the definition of:
ballistocardiograph, cardiograph, recoilless

More general:
bounce, bound, jump, leap, motion, move, movement, rebound, ricochet, spring, take a hop

Synonyms:
backlash, bounce, bound, cringe, flinch, funk, kick, kick back, quail, rebound, repercussion, ricochet, shrink, spring, squinch, take a hop, wince

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— Adjectives for recoil: elastic, instinctive, natural, nuclear, impetuous, sudden, passive, violent, inward, heavy, slight, more...

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