recoil
verbHow to pronounce recoil:
Definition of recoil:
- recoil (verb):
- to jerk or spring back
- to fall back under pressure
- draw back, as with fear or pain.
Synonyms for recoil:
blench
cringe
flinch
funk
hesitate
jerk back
kick
move
pull back
quail
react
rebound
resile
retract
shrink
shudder
spring back
squinch
tremble
wince
Antonyms for recoil:
calm
confront
face
meet
remain
smile
stay
steady
work
Here are some other common 2-syllable words.
- muddy
- footprint
- vivid
- snobbish
- buoyant
- resume
- whereas
- staple
- brusqueness
- hobble
- tenant
- shocking
- scudding
- harass
- guzzling
- sentry
- abject
- altar
- wisping
- footle
- crisscrossed
- sombre
- couriered
- baseness
- speeling
- dapper
- crossly
- clumpy
- burdie
- woolen
- whizzes
- subside
- forename
- gripping
- ransack
- concurred
- artless
- scoundrel
- sixteenth
- skidding
- precedes
- straggly
- silky
- traipse
- possesses
- warmness
- louring
- Phillip
- reshaped
- raiment
- … more
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