Crossword-Solution: RECOIL
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Recoil | v. i. | To start, roll, bound, spring, or fall back; to take a reverse motion; to be driven or forced backward; to return. |
| Recoil | v. i. | To draw back, as from anything repugnant, distressing, alarming, or the like; to shrink. |
| Recoil | v. i. | To turn or go back; to withdraw one's self; to retire. |
| Recoil | v. t. | To draw or go back. |
| Recoil | n. | A starting or falling back; a rebound; a shrinking; as, the recoil of nature, or of the blood. |
| Recoil | n. | The state or condition of having recoiled. |
| Recoil | n. | Specifically, the reaction or rebounding of a firearm when discharged. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| RECOIL | anagram | COILER, ORICLE |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EATRE
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greedy person
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Sentences with RECOIL (5)
The lances burst into shivers up to the very grasp, and it seemed at the moment that both knights had fallen, for the shock had made each horse recoil backwards upon its haunches.
The Countess may recoil from handling the acids and watching the process of cremation; but she can surely sprinkle a little disinfecting powder--' 'No more!' Henry reiterated.
There was a moment when my suspense on this point was so acute that I all but broke out with the question, and what kept it back was but a kind of instinctive recoil (lest it should be a mistake), from the last violence of self-exposure.
Clara said she even wanted him; then why couldn’t he go to her, make love to her, kiss her? Why, when she put her arm in his, timidly, as they walked, did he feel he would burst forth in brutality and recoil? He owed himself to her; he wanted to belong to her.
The same strung-up force which had given twenty-four men a chance, at least, for their lives, had, in a sort of recoil, crushed an unworthy mutinous existence.
Quotes with RECOIL (3)
When Great Trees Fall When great trees fall, rocks on distant hills shudder, lions hunker downin tall grasses, and even elephantslumber after safety. When great trees fallin forests, small things recoil into silence, their senseseroded beyond fear. When great souls die, the air around us becomeslight, rare, sterile. We breathe, briefly. Our eyes, briefly, see witha hurtful clarity. Our memory, suddenly sharpened, examines, gnaws on kind wordsunsaid, promised walksnever taken.…
To me, at least in retrospect, the really interesting question is why dullness proves to be such a powerful impediment to attention. Why we recoil from the dull. Maybe it’s because dullness is intrinsically painful; maybe that’s where phrases like ‘deadly dull’ or ‘excruciatingly dull’ come from. But there might be more to it. Maybe dullness is associated with psychic pain because something that’s dull or opaque fails to provide enough stimulation to distract people from some…
If we lived for ever, what you say would be true. But we have to die, we have to leave life presently. Injustice and greed would be the real thing if we lived for ever. As it is, we must hold to other things, because Death is coming. I love death - not morbidly, but because He explains. He shows me the emptiness of Money. Death and Money are the eternal foes. Not Death and Life. . . . Death destroys a man: the idea of Death saves him. Behind the coffins and the skeletons that…
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Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 47 times in crossword archives (1956–2025).