about the bush, bounce, counteraction, evasion, have repercussions, look askance at, pussyfoot, reply, shift, squinch
Definitionn. the backward jerk of a gun when it is fired
Last update: October 30, 2015
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He recoiled when a gun was fired. [Please select]
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She recoiled in horror at the sight of the accident. [Please select]
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In practice however the recoil escapement is often more suitable. [Please select]
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The amount of light produced depends on the recoil energy. [Please select]
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Magua recoiled a step; and one of his assistants, profiting by the chance, sheathed his own knife in the bosom of Cora. [Please select]
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The former, however, glanced his eyes around the dark and silent assembly, and recoiled a pace, when they fell on the malignant visage of Magua. [Please select]
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The young man started, and recoiled a few paces instinctively, when he found himself within a hundred yards of a stranger Indian. [Please select]
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Uncas, who had already approached the door, in readiness to lead the way, now recoiled, and placed himself, once more, in the bottom of the lodge. [Please select]
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So wasted were their half-naked limbs, so ghastly and livid their countenances, that they might have all been plague-patients, and Angela recoiled from them in horror. [Please select]
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They may expose my body, and gibbet my limbs; but other days will come, when the sentence of infamy will recoil against those who may pronounce it. [Please select]
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