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Answer for the clue "Revulsion action ", 6 letters:
recoil

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Recoil is a musical project created by former Depeche Mode member Alan Wilder . Essentially a solo venture, Recoil began whilst Wilder was still in Depeche Mode as an outlet for his experimental, less pop-oriented compositions. Once he announced his departure ...

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, ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary 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 ...

Usage examples of recoil.

When the berserker launch vehicle came shooting up out of that peculiar background, it flew past his scoutship before either he or his autopilot could react effectively, coming so close, within a few kilometers, that Pike instinctively recoiled, as from an imminent collision.

But as the bridleless starhorse wheeled, climbing the air, his rider suddenly recoiled.

Nor did the child recoil any longer from the ugly task which milor, with suave speech and tender voice, was so ardently seeking to impose on her.

The squat, misformed giant of a man seemed almost to recoil as if struck, and to tremble.

He seemed to recoil at my words, and began pacing up and down the study before breaking into a great storm of doubting and misliking of the spirits.

I could recoil from its touch, nudged my forehead with a blind, mouthless snout.

So, in a gale, the but half baffled Channel billows only recoil from the base of the Eddystone, triumphantly to overleap its summit with their scud.

Thorin recoiled a step and in a lightning reflex movement, drew his pistolet from its holster.

Between the clavicles another pulsatile swelling was easily felt but hardly seen, which was doubtless the arch of the aorta, as by putting the fingers on it one could feel a double shock, synchronous with distention and recoil of a vessel or opening and closing of the semilunar valves.

The horses recoiled and the English men-at-arms advanced to hack at the horsemen who were relin- quishing lances to draw their swords.

The Rattler moved with a coiling and recoiling motion, treads grinding beneath.

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.