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 Re·coil v. i. [imp. & p. p. Recoiled p. pr. & vb. n. Recoiling.]
 1. 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.
 2. To draw back, as from anything repugnant, distressing, alarming, or the like; to shrink.
 3. To turn or go back; to withdraw one's self; to retire. [Obs.] “To your bowers recoil.”