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Answer for the clue "Springing back in disgust ", 9 letters:
recoiling

Word definitions for recoiling in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The act of something that recoils. vb. (present participle of recoil English)

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Recoil \Re*coil"\ (r[-e]*koil"), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Recoiled (r[-e]*koild"); p. pr. & vb. n. Recoiling .] [OE. recoilen, F. reculer, fr. L. pref. re- re- + culus the fundament. The English word was perhaps influenced in form by accoil.] To start, roll, ...

Usage examples of recoiling.

Her gaze flickered to the silent trees, her spirit recoiling from the malevolence of the forest.

To clear out the quartz would disrupt patterned energies, with the recoiling effects of unsanctioned release rewritten in her hapless flesh.

Yet their depths reflected a wound so deep, thought could scarcely encompass the recoiling agony.

As though the spells carved through each nerve and bone of him, the spellbinder sensed the recoiling, flash bum of heat.

Cast back toward the dimmer frame of his mortality, Arithon screamed in recoiling pain.

He smoked with lips protruding, spitting every moment, recoiling at every puff.

All around her, she could feel the plant growth recoiling, twisting free and pulling away from her.