recoil
- suddenly spring or flinch back in fear, horror, or disgust；feel fear, horror, or disgust at the thought or prospect of something; shrink mentally
- the action of recoiling
verb: recoil, 3rd person present: recoils, gerund or present participle: recoiling, past tense: recoiled, past participle: recoiled
noun: recoil, plural noun: recoils
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- 釋義
動詞
- 1. suddenly spring or flinch back in fear, horror, or disgust he recoiled in horror 同義詞
- ▪ feel fear, horror, or disgust at the thought or prospect of something; shrink mentally Renee felt herself recoil at the very thought 同義詞
- ▪ (of a gun) move abruptly backward as a reaction on firing a bullet, shell, or other missile. 同義詞
- ▪ rebound or spring back through force of impact or elasticity the muscle has the ability to recoil
- ▪ (of an action) have an adverse reactive effect on (the originator) the soothsayers agreed that all the dangers would recoil on the heads of those who were in possession of the entrails 同義詞
名詞
- 1. the action of recoiling his body jerked with the recoil of the rifle
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- IPA[rɪˈkɔɪl]
英式
- suddenly spring or flinch back in fear, horror, or disgust: he recoiled in horror
- the action of recoiling: his body jerked with the recoil of the rifle
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