Crossword clues for recoiling
recoiling
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.]
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To start, roll, bound, spring, or fall back; to take a reverse motion; to be driven or forced backward; to return.
Evil on itself shall back recoil.
--Milton.The solemnity of her demeanor made it impossible . . . that we should recoil into our ordinary spirits.
--De Quincey. To draw back, as from anything repugnant, distressing, alarming, or the like; to shrink.
--Shak.To turn or go back; to withdraw one's self; to retire. [Obs.] ``To your bowers recoil.''
--Spenser.
Wiktionary
n. The act of something that recoils. vb. (present participle of recoil English)
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.