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| Main Entry: |
recoil
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| 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 |
| Main Entry: | avoidance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | eluding; preventing |
| Synonyms: | absention, circumvention, delay, departure, dodge, dodging, elusion, escape, escapism, eschewal, evasion, flight, forbearance, nonparticipation, parry, passive resistance, prevention, recession, recoil, restraint, retreat, run-around, self-restraint, shirking, shunning, steering clear of |
| Antonyms: | meeting |
| Main Entry: | back down |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | back off |
| Synonyms: | abandon, accede, acquiesce, admit, back off, back out, back pedal, backtrack, balk, beg off, bow out, cancel, cave in, chicken out, chicken out, concede, cop out, demur, give ground, give in, give up, go back on, have no fight left, hold back, pull back, pull out, recant, recoil, renege, resign, retreat, submit, surrender, take back, wimp out, withdraw, withdraw from agreement or statement, yield |
| Antonyms: | go forward |
| Main Entry: | backfire |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | have an opposite effect |
| Synonyms: | backlash, boomerang, bounce back, disappoint, fail, flop, miscarry, rebound, recoil, ricochet, spring back |
| Main Entry: | backlash |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | adverse reaction |
| Synonyms: | backfire, boomerang, counteraction, kickback, reaction, recoil, repercussion, resentment, resistance, response, retaliation, retroaction, tangle |
| Main Entry: | balk |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | stop short |
| Synonyms: | cramp, crimp, demur, desist, dodge, evade, flinch, hesitate, recoil, refuse, resist, shirk, shrink from, shy, turn down, upset apple cart |
| Main Entry: | blanch |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | become afraid |
| Synonyms: | flinch, pale, recoil, shrink, start, wince |
| Antonyms: | be brave |
| Main Entry: | boomerang |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | backfire |
| Synonyms: | backlash, bounce back, come back, come home to roost, kick back, react, rebound, recoil, return, reverse, ricochet |
| Antonyms: | work |
| Main Entry: | bounce |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | spring |
| Synonyms: | animation, bound, dynamism, elasticity, energy, give, go, life, liveliness, pep, rebound, recoil, resilience, springiness, vigor, vitality, vivacity, zip |
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