| Main Entry: | bounce |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | spring up; rebound |
Synonyms: |
backlash, bob, boomerang, bound, buck, bump, carom, fly back, glance off, hop, hurdle, jerk up and down, jounce, jump, kick back, leap, rebound, recoil, resile, ricochet, saltate, snap back, spring back, thump, vault |
| Main Entry: | recoil |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | shrink away |
Synonyms: |
backfire, balk, blanch, blench, blink, carom, cringe, demur, dodge, draw back, duck, falter, flinch, hesitate, jerk, kick, pull back, quail, quake, react, rebound, reel, resile, shake, shirk, shrink, shudder, shy away, spring, start, step back, stick, stickle, swerve, tremble, turn away, waver, wince, withdraw |
Antonyms: |
face, meet |
| Concept: | Recoil. |
| Category: | 3. Motion conjoined with force |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
recoil; reaction, retroaction; revulsion; bounce, rebound, ricochet; repercussion, recalcitration; kick, contrecoup; springing back; elasticity; reflexion, reflex, reflux; reverberation (resonance); rebuff, repulse; return., ducks and drakes; boomerang; spring, reactionist.
-verbs
recoil, react; spring back, fly back, bounce back, bound back; rebound, reverberate, repercuss, recalcitrate; echo, ricochet.
-adjectives
recoiling; refluent, repercussive, recalcitrant, reactionary; retroactive.
-adverbs
on the rebound, on the recoil.
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