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Best answers for Recoil – Crossword Clue


Answer: flinch


Clue Length Answer
Recoil3 lettersshy
  1. Definition: 1. start suddenly, as from fright

Recoil4 lettersecho
  1. Definition: 1. an imitation or repetition; "the flower arrangement was created as an echo of a client's still life"

Recoil4 lettersback
  1. Definition: 1. travel backward; "back into the driveway"; "The car backed up and hit the tree"

Recoil4 letterskick
  1. Definition: 1. express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness; "My mother complains all day"; "She has a lot to kick about"

Recoil4 lettersreel
  1. Definition: 1. wind onto or off a reel

Recoil4 letterspull
  1. Definition: 1. a slow inhalation (as of tobacco smoke); "he took a puff on his pipe"; "he took a drag on his cigarette and expelled the smoke slowly"

Recoil5 lettersquail
  1. Definition: 1. small gallinaceous game birds

Recoil5 lettersprint
  1. Definition: 1. a printed picture produced from a photographic negative

Recoil5 letterswaver
  1. Definition: 1. the act of moving back and forth

Recoil5 lettersshift
  1. Definition: 1. change gears; "you have to shift when you go down a steep hill"

Recoil5 lettersreply
  1. Definition: 1. react verbally; "She didn't want to answer"; "answer the question"; "We answered that we would accept the invitation"

Recoil5 lettersstart
  1. Definition: 1. leave; "The family took off for Florida"

Recoil5 lettersqualm
  1. Definition: 1. a mild state of nausea

Recoil5 lettersbaulk

    Recoil5 letterswince
    1. Definition: 1. make a face indicating disgust or dislike; "She winced when she heard his pompous speech"

    Recoil6 lettersrevolt
    1. Definition: 1. cause aversion in; offend the moral sense of; "The pornographic pictures sickened us"

    Recoil6 lettersspring
    1. Definition: 1. a light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards

    Recoil6 lettersswerve
    1. Definition: 1. the act of turning aside suddenly

    Recoil6 lettersstrain
    1. Definition: 1. (biology) a group of organisms within a species that differ in trivial ways from similar groups;

    Recoil6 lettersflinch
    1. Definition: 1. draw back, as with fear or pain; "she flinched when they showed the slaughtering of the calf"

    Recoil6 lettersretort
    1. Definition: 1. answer back

    Recoil6 lettersshrink
    1. Definition: 1. a physician who specializes in psychiatry

    Recoil6 lettersweasel
    1. Definition: 1. small carnivorous mammal with short legs and elongated body and neck

    Recoil6 lettersreflex
    1. Definition: 1. an automatic instinctive unlearned reaction to a stimulus

    Recoil6 lettersresult
    1. Definition: 1. come about or follow as a consequence; "nothing will result from this meeting"

    Recoil6 lettersrebuff
    1. Definition: 1. reject outright and bluntly; "She snubbed his proposal"

    Recoil6 lettersreturn
    1. Definition: 1. getting something back again; "upon the restitution of the book to its rightful owner the child was given a tongue lashing"

    Recoil6 letterswrithe

      Recoil6 lettersblench
      1. Definition: 1. turn pale, as if in fear

      Recoil6 lettersresile

        Recoil7 lettersshyness
        1. Definition: 1. a feeling of fear of embarrassment

        Recoil7 lettersrebound
        1. Definition: 1. return to a former condition; "The jilted lover soon rallied and found new friends"; "The stock market rallied"

        Recoil7 letterspullout
        1. Definition: 1. to break off a military action with an enemy

        Recoil7 lettersscruple
        1. Definition: 1. an ethical or moral principle that inhibits action

        Recoil7 lettersprotest
        1. Definition: 1. the act of protesting; a public (often organized) manifestation of dissent

        Recoil7 lettersstickle
        1. Definition: 1. dispute or argue stubbornly (especially minor points)

        Recoil7 lettersretreat
        1. Definition: 1. the act of withdrawing or going backward (especially to escape something hazardous or unpleasant)

        Recoil7 lettersrepulse
        1. Definition: 1. force or drive back; "repel the attacker"; "fight off the onslaught"; "rebuff the attack"

        Recoil8 lettersresponse
        1. Definition: 1. a bodily process occurring due to the effect of some antecedent stimulus or agent; "a bad reaction to the medicine"; "his responses have slowed with age"

        Recoil8 lettersward-off

          Recoil8 lettersricochet
          1. Definition: 1. a glancing rebound

          Recoil8 lettershangback

            Recoil8 lettersbacklash
            1. Definition: 1. an adverse reaction to some political or social occurrence; "there was a backlash of intolerance"

            Recoil8 letterswithdraw
            1. Definition: 1. withdraw from active participation; "He retired from chess"

            Recoil8 lettersreaction
            1. Definition: 1. doing something in opposition to another way of doing it that you don't like; "his style of painting was a reaction against cubism"

            Recoil8 letterscontract
            1. Definition: 1. be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness; "He got AIDS"; "She came down with pneumonia"; "She took a chill"

            Recoil8 letterssidestep
            1. Definition: 1. a step to one side (as in boxing or dancing)

            Recoil8 lettersstick-at

              Recoil8 letterspullback

                Recoil9 letterspull-back

                  Recoil9 letterspussyfoot
                  1. Definition: 1. to go stealthily or furtively; "..stead of sneaking around spying on the neighbor's house"

                  Recoil9 letterssnap-back

                    Recoil9 lettersstickling

                      Recoil9 lettersshrinking

                        Recoil9 letterssheer-off

                          Recoil9 lettersrenitency

                            Recoil10 lettersstep-aside

                              Recoil10 lettersresistance
                              1. Definition: 1. the capacity of an organism to defend itself against harmful environmental agents; "these trees are widely planted because of their resistance to salt and smog"

                              Recoil10 lettersrepugnance
                              1. Definition: 1. intense aversion

                              Recoil10 letterscounteract
                              1. Definition: 1. destroy property or hinder normal operations; "The Resistance sabotaged railroad operations during the war"

                              Recoil10 lettersresilience
                              1. Definition: 1. the physical property of a material that can return to its original shape or position after deformation that does not exceed its elastic limit

                              Recoil10 lettersturn-aside

                                Recoil11 lettersreverberate
                                1. Definition: 1. treat, process, heat, melt, or refine in a reverberatory furnace; "reverberate ore"

                                Recoil12 lettersrepercussion
                                1. Definition: 1. a movement back from an impact

                                Recoil13 lettersreciprocation

                                  Recoil13 lettersrecalcitrance
                                  1. Definition: 1. the trait of being unmanageable

                                  Recoil13 lettersreverberation
                                  1. Definition: 1. the repetition of a sound resulting from reflection of the sound waves; "she could hear echoes of her own footsteps"


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