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Reculement :: Reculement (n.) Recoil.

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

Recoil :: Recoil (v. t.) To draw or go back.

Recule :: Recule (v. i.) To recoil.

Recoiler :: Recoiler (n.) One who, or that which, recoils..

Breeching :: Breeching (n.) A strong rope rove through the cascabel of a cannon and secured to ringbolts in the ship's side, to limit the recoil of the gun when it is discharged..

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

Recoilment :: Recoilment (n.) Recoil.

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

Shrink :: Shrink (n.) The act shrinking; shrinkage; contraction; also, recoil; withdrawal..

Resile :: Resile (v. i.) To start back; to recoil; to recede from a purpose.

Recoil :: Recoil (n.) A starting or falling back; a rebound; a shrinking; as, the recoil of nature, or of the blood..

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

Resilient :: Resilient (a.) Leaping back; rebounding; recoiling.

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..

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

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

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.

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

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..

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