recoil from

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recoil from someone or something

to draw back from someone or something. I recoiled from Sally when she told me what she had done. I recoiled from the horror and slammed the door.

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Millions around the world will recoil from what they will see, rightly or wrongly, as the imperialist arrogance of Britain and America. WHERE'S BLAIR'S PEACE? by Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England) Do you recoil from my Gollum-like glee When I exhume some cobweb-covered fact Like Browning's notion of 'enclitic "D"' Or who betrayed the Hitler-Stalin pact? Sonnet: June by Harvey, A.D. / Contemporary Review			recede from receipt receive receive as receive back receive from receive from some place receive into receive with open arms recharge batteries reckon reckon among reckon as reckon into reckon with reckon without reckoning reclaim from recognize recognize as recognize by recognize for recognize for what it is recoil recoil at the sight recoil from recommend recommend as recommend for recommend to recompense for reconcile reconcile oneself to reconcile with reconstruct from record record from record in record on recount to recoup from recover from recruit recruit for recruit from recruit into recuperate from red red as a cherry red eye red herring			recognizing recognizing recognizing recognizing recognizing Recognizing and Responding to Suicide Risk Recognizing Excellence in Achievement and Professionalism Recognizing Youth as Resources Recognizor Recognosce recoil recoil recoil recoil recoil Recoil Actuated Pivoting Torsion Orbital Retractor recoil adapter recoil at the sight recoil at the thought Recoil booster Recoil brake Recoil brake recoil click Recoil compensator Recoil Corrected Continuum Shell Model Recoil Distance Doppler Shift Recoil dynamometer recoil electron Recoil escapement Recoil escapement recoil from recoil from with pride recoil implantation recoil ion spectroscopy recoil mechanism recoil milking recoil oil recoil on recoil on recoil on recoil on recoil particle recoil pit recoil upon recoil upon recoil upon recoil upon recoil velocity recoil wave recoil wave recoil wave recoil wave recoil wave Recoil, Gun recoiled recoiled recoiled recoiled recoiled recoiled on recoiled on

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