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Recoil vs Disgust - What's the difference?

recoil | disgust |

As nouns the difference between recoil and disgust

is that recoil is a starting or falling back; a rebound; a shrinking while disgust is an intense dislike or loathing someone feels for something bad or nasty.

As verbs the difference between recoil and disgust

is that recoil is while disgust is to cause an intense dislike for something.

recoil

English

(wikipedia recoil)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A starting or falling back; a rebound; a shrinking.
    • the recoil of nature, or of the blood
  • The state or condition of having recoiled.
  • * F. W. Robertson
    • The recoil from formalism is skepticism.
  • (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.

    • Verb

  • * 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , V.11:
    • that rude rout
  • (obsolete) To retire, withdraw.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.x:
    • Ye both forwearied be: therefore a whyle / Iread you rest, and to your bowres recoyle .
  • * Milton
    • Evil on itself shall back recoil .
  • * De Quincey
    • The solemnity of her demeanor made it impossible that we should recoil into our ordinary spirits.
  • To pull back, especially in disgust, horror or astonishment.
    • He recoiled in disgust when he saw the mess.
    (Shakespeare)

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    disgust

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To cause an intense dislike for something.
    • It disgusts me, to see her chew with her mouth open.
  • * 1874 , (Marcus Clarke), (For the Term of His Natural Life) Chapter V
    • It is impossible to convey, in words, any idea of the hideous phantasmagoria of shifting limbs and faces which moved through the evil-smelling twilight of this terrible prison-house. Callot might have drawn it, Dante might have suggested it, but a minute attempt to describe its horrors would but disgust . There are depths in humanity which one cannot explore, as there are mephitic caverns into which one dare not penetrate.

    Noun

    (wikipedia disgust) (-)
  • An intense dislike or loathing someone feels for something bad or nasty.
    • With an air of disgust , she stormed out of the room.

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