Recoil vs Recede - What's the difference?
recoil | recede |
A starting or falling back; a rebound; a shrinking.
The state or condition of having recoiled.
* F. W. Robertson
(firearms) The amount of energy transmitted back to the shooter from a firearm which has fired. Recoil is a function of the weight of the weapon, the weight of the projectile, and the speed at which it leaves the muzzle.
* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , V.11:
(obsolete) To retire, withdraw.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.x:
* Milton
* De Quincey
To pull back, especially in disgust, horror or astonishment.
To move back; to retreat; to withdraw.
* Dryden
* Bentley
To cede back; to grant or yield again to a former possessor.
To take back.
As verbs the difference between recoil and recede
is that recoil is to retreat before an opponent while recede is to move back; to retreat; to withdraw.As a noun recoil
is a starting or falling back; a rebound; a shrinking.recoil
English
(wikipedia recoil)Noun
(en noun)- the recoil of nature, or of the blood
- The recoil from formalism is skepticism.
Verb
- that rude rout
- Ye both forwearied be: therefore a whyle / Iread you rest, and to your bowres recoyle .
- Evil on itself shall back recoil .
- The solemnity of her demeanor made it impossible that we should recoil into our ordinary spirits.
- He recoiled in disgust when he saw the mess.
- (Shakespeare)
Derived terms
* recoil onAnagrams
*recede
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Verb
(reced)- Like the hollow roar / Of tides receding from the instituted shore.
- All bodies moved circularly endeavour to recede from the center.
- to recede conquered territory