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  • verb Present participle of recoil.

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Examples

  • I believe those people are recoiling from the entire prospect of Doctor Who at this point, given what just happened on Torchwood.

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  • And then suddenly she was recoiling from the bed as if it had burst into flame, pinning the nightshirt to her chest and — it was her turn now — jamming a fist into her mouth to keep from screaming.

    The Silence 2010

  • And then suddenly she was recoiling from the bed as if it had burst into flame, pinning the nightshirt to her chest and — it was her turn now — jamming a fist into her mouth to keep from screaming.

    The Silence 2010

  • And then suddenly she was recoiling from the bed as if it had burst into flame, pinning the nightshirt to her chest and — it was her turn now — jamming a fist into her mouth to keep from screaming.

    The Silence 2010

  • Yet, while recoiling from the very word "torture," the

    GULF WAR INDEX 2002

  • Not that His ascension itself would stumble them more than His death, but that after recoiling from the mention of the one, they would not be in

    Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

  • The banking giant was one of the relatively few winning stocks Tuesday, when markets around the world were recoiling from the Greek debt crisis.

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  • I sincerely hope that you, dear readers, are laughing, because I – still recoiling from the shock of having had shit on my face and preoccupied with the task of disinfecting my head – have not yet been able to muster a laugh.

    The Gods Must Be Dadaists | Her Bad Mother 2006

  • (Already I can imagine them recoiling from the screen, crying What have I done?

    Margaret’s Sunday Quickie: To the Teachers « 2009

  • "HELL!" she iterated in accents that conveyed the idea of recoiling from an abyss.

    Marion Harland's autobiography : the story of a long life, 1910

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