RECOIL


Meaning of RECOIL in English

verb

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

horror

Mobuto recoiled in horror , stumbling back painfully into the Studebaker's wing mirror.

I should have gasped and recoiled in horror .

He read about Jacques Delors's federalist vision from which he recoiled in horror .

The idea of their having a say in the running of a club appears to make officials recoil with horror .

Rebus's face changed; he recoiled in horror , but Osvaldo had his thumbs hooked in the malai's belt.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

She recoiled from his touch.

She looked at the dead body and recoiled.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

And for the rest of his life he recoiled from the popular mission and missioner.

But the Republican governors recoiled from the prospect of reopening the welfare bill for anything.

It stung her deeply and she recoiled at once.

She saw the names of prominent corporate donors mentioned liberally throughout the library and recoiled.

The divorce was acrimonious; she still recoils at the name Andy.

They recoil away as if the intruder were unpleasant to them - something more than simply shading them from sunlight.

They met the same tempest of shell, grape, canister, and musketry, and recoiled.

They they do not recoil from each other, but blend together in one mass.

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