Crossword-Solution: RECOILS
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| RECOILS | anagram | COILERS |
We have 19 clues for the answer “RECOILS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Suddenly shrinks | 1 answer |
| Starts back, as in fear | 1 answer |
| Springs back, as a gun | 1 answer |
| Shows alarm | 1 answer |
| Pulls back from | 1 answer |
| Jumps back | 1 answer |
| Gets the kinks out of, as a Slinky? | 1 answer |
| Exhibits revulsion | 1 answer |
| Draws back in disgust | 1 answer |
| Winces | 2 answers |
| Backs (away from) | 2 answers |
| Springs back. | 3 answers |
| Kickbacks | 3 answers |
| Shrinks in fear | 3 answers |
| Shrinks back | 6 answers |
| Draws back | 7 answers |
| Kicks back | 8 answers |
| Shrinks | 9 answers |
| Retreats | 23 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RTEEA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with RECOILS (5)
Henry, I maun premeese, is a chief; the humblest Samoan recoils from emptying slops as you would from cheating at cards; now the last nights of our bad time when we had seven down together, it was enough to have made anybody laugh or cry to see Henry going the rounds with a slop-bucket and going inside the mosquito net of each of the sick, Protestant and Catholic alike, to pray with them.
From an utter stranger the request is almost comically extravagant; I am well aware of this; and I would add at once, if there be any one present who has heard enough, if there be one among the party who recoils from a dangerous confidence and a piece of Quixotic devotion to he knows not whom—here is my hand ready, and I shall wish him good-night and God-speed with all the sincerity in the world.” A very tall, black man, with a heavy stoop, immediately responded to this appeal.
But now, he starts into full wakefulness, recoils a step or two, and gazes out before him with eager wildness in his eye.
The youngest gentleman in company is pale, but collected, and still sits apart; for his spirit loves to hold communion with itself, and his soul recoils from noisy revellers.
Ape not philosophy or wit, Lest one who cannot comprehend, Make a wry face at thee and ask, “Why offer flowers to me, my friend?” Be not a meddler; no affair Of thine the life thy neighbours lead: Be prudent; oft the random jest Recoils upon the jester’s head.
Quotes with RECOILS (3)
The Throes of Poetry - Hymns formed from groans of acquaintance, its rhythm weaving between tranquility, compassions, and peril - like bare feet stomping on broken glass - bleeds, recoils, then steps again.
This secular Leftist denial of human free will is one of the reasons the Left recoils from labeling evil as evil, and (correctly) ascribes talk about good and evil to the religious.
It appears to me that in spite of myself I have been dragged to this inevitable point where old age must be undergone. I see it there before me; I have reached it; and I should at least like so to arrange matters that I do not move on, that I do not travel farther along this path of infirmities, pains, losses of memory and disfigurement. Their attack is at hand, and I hear a voice that says, `You must go along, whatever you may say; or if indeed you will not, then you must di…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 18 times in crossword archives (1970–2025).