Recoils is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for RECOILS in dictionary:

VERB:
• RECOIL, to draw back in fear or disgust
• suddenly spring or flinch back in fear, horror, or disgust
• feel fear, horror, or disgust at the thought of something
• rebound or spring back through force of impact or elasticity
• (of a gun) move abruptly backwards as a reaction on firing a bullet, shell, or other missile
• (of an action) have an adverse reactive effect on (the originator)
NOUN:
• the action of recoiling

Words related to RECOILS

recoil8 recoiled11 recoiling12

How to use RECOILS in a sentence

• In its helplessness the will recoils upon itself, turning to gall and bitterness, or seeks a solution in self-destruction.
• As mere matter of abstract right, morality, perhaps, ought to be contented when injury recoils upon an aggressor.
• To carry deadly tools is dangerous, And on the archer oft his shaft recoils.
• My mind recoils from contemplation of what they may crystallize into.
• His influence is a very tender, sacred thing, and, like the sensitive plant, recoils at the touch of a rude hand.
• He himself recoils, as any Englishman of sense and common feeling must, at the wild extravagances into which this devotion has run.
• She had grown pale as death itself during his speech, and now she recoils from him.
• Darkness and all that the spirit recoils from, is contained in this idea, not to be.
• So, for the first time in Purgatory he recoils at the penance he must perform.
• The observation leads into mysteries from which the physiological Muse recoils.
• She recoils from everything but the plastic, the pliant, and the indefinite.
• When the posterior wall recoils the cartilages are carried back to their original position.
• He recoils from regarding man either as to body or soul as the product of mere natural causes.
• He does not recognise himself in the mirror of public opinion, and recoils terrified from the distorted reflection of his features.
• The danger lies in this, that the greater efficacy which we seek recoils on ourselves, and therefore has worse consequences in case we fail of success.
• When the power of promotion is abused in the grand passages of life whether by People, Legislature, or Executive, the unjust decision recoils on the judge at once.
• His glance again quailed, as the lion recoils from the angry glance of a pure, innocent woman.
• The gigantic spirit recoils upon itself, crushes itself, and reaches its last triumph.
• Penthesilea recoils from the spell and dashes again into her ambiguous warfare.
• Penthesilea recoils with like vehemence from the entreaties of her maids, intent upon the further battle, resolved to overcome the hero or to die.
• The recoils of pride in the direction opposed to our vices lead us to those of a contrary nature.
• But the malice of a psychology intended as a weapon against superstition here recoils on science itself.
• So long as love recoils from a crime it seems to have its limits, and love should be infinite.
• The imagination recoils from the thought of so much human wretchedness.
• Again there were momentary lulls, as when the sea recoils upon itself and is stilled for an instant.
• But the great heart of the people recoils from this enactment.

Similar words containing COIL without suffix s and without prefix re

coil6 coils7 accoil10 coiled9 coiler8 recoil8 uncoil8 upcoil10 accoils11 coilers9 coiling10 uncoils9 upcoils11 recoiled11 recoiler10 uncoiled11 upcoiled13 chokecoil20 recoilers11 recoiling12 supercoil13 uncoiling12 upcoiling14 chokecoils21 recoilless12 supercoils14 coilability18 supercoiled16 supercoiling17 coilabilities17

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