Crossword-Solution: RECOILED
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Recoiled | imp. & p. p. | of Recoil |
We have 10 clues for the answer “RECOILED”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Drew back in disgust | 1 answer |
| Drew back in horror | 1 answer |
| Drew back, in a way | 1 answer |
| Flinched back | 1 answer |
| Opposite of charged | 1 answer |
| Shrank back | 2 answers |
| Sprang back | 2 answers |
| Shrank from. | 6 answers |
| Flinched | 7 answers |
| Drew Back | 7 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
MZAECE
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with RECOILED (5)
Merciful Heaven, what is this!" He recoiled in terror, for the scene had changed, and now he almost touched a bed: a bare, uncurtained bed: on which, beneath a ragged sheet, there lay a something covered up, which, though it was dumb, announced itself in awful language.
Her very soul recoiled in horror from these excesses, to which she feared her brother Armand—moderate republican as he was—might become one day the holocaust.
For an instant they recoiled before my terrific onslaught, and in that instant the green warrior rose to the occasion and, springing to my side, laid to the right and left of him as I had never seen but one other warrior do, with great circling strokes that formed a figure eight about him and that never stopped until none stood living to oppose him, his keen blade passing through flesh and bone and metal as though each had been alike thin air.
The first inrushing wave of yellow warriors recoiled from the slashing blades of ten of Helium’s veteran fighting men.
Finding the abomination of his tribe opposed to his very nose, while the Jester, at the same time, flourished his wooden sword above his head, the Jew recoiled, missed his footing, and rolled down the steps,—an excellent jest to the spectators, who set up a loud laughter, in which Prince John and his attendants heartily joined.
Quotes with RECOILED (3)
Love. He recoiled from the very idea. He knew all about love: love was following his best friend around school like a lost puppy, putting up with all manner of shit just to be near him. Love was sobbing himself to sleep night after endless night because the guy who’d taken his virginity hadn’t called him back. Love was a thousand shattered dreams and a flood of memories that made him cringe. Love could fuck off.
Christ, they’d be getting a cat next. He mentally recoiled from the idea: the day they did that, he’d cut off his dick and call himself a lesbian.
Until our own time, history focussed on man the achiever; the higher the achiever the more likely it was that the woman who slept in his bed would be judged unworthy of his company. Her husband's fans recoiled from the notion that she might have made a significant contribution towards his achievement of greatness. The possibility that a wife might have been closer to their idol than they could ever be, understood him better than they ever could, could not be entertained.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Chronicle, CrosSynergy, NY Sun, NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 9 times in crossword archives (1988–2024).