Usually means: Kickback when firing a gun.
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  1. recoil: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. recoil: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. recoil: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. recoil: Collins English Dictionary
  5. recoil: Vocabulary.com
  6. Recoil, recoil: Wordnik
  7. recoil: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. recoil: Wiktionary
  9. recoil: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. recoil: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. Recoil, recoil: Dictionary.com
  12. recoil (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. recoil: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Recoil (album), Recoil (band), Recoil (disambiguation), Recoil (fluid behavior), Recoil (magazine), Recoil (video game), Recoil, The Recoil: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Recoil: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. recoil: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. recoil: Rhymezone
  18. recoil: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. recoil: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. recoil: Free Dictionary
  21. recoil: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. recoil: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. recoil: Legal dictionary

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  1. recoil: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
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  3. recoil: Medical dictionary

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  1. recoil: Idioms

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  1. From Stargazers to Starships Glossary (No longer online)

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  1. Recoil: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See recoiled as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A starting or falling back; a rebound; a shrinking.
noun:  The state or condition of having recoiled.
noun:  (firearms) The energy transmitted back to the shooter from a firearm which has fired. Recoil is a function of the weight of the weapon, the weight of the projectile, and the speed at which it leaves the muzzle.
noun:  An escapement in which, after each beat, the scape-wheel recoils slightly.
verb:  To pull back, especially in disgust, horror or astonishment.
verb:  (archaic) To retreat before an opponent.
verb:  (weaponry) Of a firearm: to quickly push back when fired.
verb:  (obsolete) To retire, withdraw.

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