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Counterbuff :: Counterbuff (n.) A blow in an opposite direction; a stroke that stops motion or cause a recoil.

Shocking :: Shocking (a.) Causing to shake or tremble, as by a blow; especially, causing to recoil with horror or disgust; extremely offensive or disgusting..

Irresilient :: Irresilient (a.) Not resilient; not recoiling or rebounding; inelastic.

Dead-stroke :: Dead-stroke (a.) Making a stroke without recoil; deadbeat.

Recoilingly :: Recoilingly (adv.) In the manner of a recoil.

Shrink :: Shrink (v. i.) To withdraw or retire, as from danger; to decline action from fear; to recoil, as in fear, horror, or distress..

Kick :: Kick (n.) The recoil of a musket or other firearm, when discharged..

Reculement :: Reculement (n.) Recoil.

Stram :: Stram (v. t.) To spring or recoil with violence.

Recoiling :: Recoiling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Recoi.

Recoiled :: Recoiled (imp. & p. p.) of Recoi.

Deadbeat :: Deadbeat (a.) Making a beat without recoil; giving indications by a single beat or excursion; -- said of galvanometers and other instruments in which the needle or index moves to the extent of its deflection and stops with little or no further oscillation.

Kick :: Kick (v. i.) To recoil; -- said of a musket, cannon, etc..

Recoil :: Recoil (n.) The state or condition of having recoiled.

Recoil :: Recoil (v. i.) To draw back, as from anything repugnant, distressing, alarming, or the like; to shrink..

Ugh :: Ugh (interj.) An exclamation expressive of disgust, horror, or recoil. Its utterance is usually accompanied by a shudder..

Shock :: Shock (v.) To strike with surprise, terror, horror, or disgust; to cause to recoil; as, his violence shocked his associates..

Benthamism :: Benthamism (n.) That phase of the doctrine of utilitarianism taught by Jeremy Bentham; the doctrine that the morality of actions is estimated and determined by their utility; also, the theory that the sensibility to pleasure and the recoil from pain are the only motives which influence human desires and actions, and that these are the sufficient explanation of ethical and jural conceptions..

Recoil :: 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 :: Recoil (v. i.) To turn or go back; to withdraw one's self; to retire.

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