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- noun Plural form of
recoil .
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Examples
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Furiously, he turns on her, and Christine recoils from the horror of his face and his anger.
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Women teetering in high heels move back; the line recoils from the truck.
Riding the edge: For a moment, skaters, punk bands and artists had a secret place to call home. Melissa Bell 2010
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The will to live of the scab recoils from the menace of broken bones and violent death.
THE SCAB 2010
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That single cell contracts and recoils from the things in its environment uncongenial to its constitution, and the things congenial it draws to itself and absorbs.
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The revolutionist is no starved and diseased slave in the shambles at the bottom of the social pit, but is, in the main, a hearty, well - fed workingman, who sees the shambles waiting for him and his children and recoils from the descent.
Revolution 2010
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The clutched purses and furtive recoils from the high-strung ...
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The clutched purses and furtive recoils from the high-strung ...
Archive 2008-10-01 2008
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Right after he recoils from the first sight of his finished, and now breathing, creation, at least as he remembers in his narration to
Hogle, Introduction, Frankenstein's Dream, Praxis Series, Romantic Circles 2003
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With the advent of new implements of destruction so terrible that the mind recoils from the thought of their use, the resort to war as a means of settlement of disputes between nations must be rejected by anv rational individual.
Realism or Fatalism 1962
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The revolutionist is no starved and diseased slave in the shambles at the bottom of the social pit, but is, in the main, a hearty, well - fed workingman, who sees the shambles waiting for him and his children and recoils from the descent.
Revolution 1910
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