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Recoil is a related term of dodge.


As a noun recoil

is a starting or falling back; a rebound; a shrinking.

As a verb recoil

is .

As a proper noun dodge is

derived from a (etyl) diminutive of roger (typically found in the united states).

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)

    Derived terms

    * recoil on

    Anagrams

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    dodge

    English

    Verb

    (dodg)
  • To avoid by moving suddenly out of the way.
    • He dodged traffic crossing the street.
  • (figuratively) To avoid; to sidestep.
    • The politician dodged the question with a meaningless reply.
  • * {{quote-book, year=2006, author=
    • , title=Internal Combustion , chapter=2 citation , passage=The popular late Middle Ages fictional character Robin Hood, dressed in green to symbolize the forest, dodged fines for forest offenses and stole from the rich to give to the poor. But his appeal was painfully real and embodied the struggle over wood.}}
  • (archaic) To go hither and thither.
  • (photography) To decrease the exposure for certain areas of a print in order to make them darker (compare burn).
  • To follow by dodging, or suddenly shifting from place to place.
  • * Coleridge
    • A speck, a mist, a shape, I wist! / And still it neared and neared: / As if it dodged a water-sprite, / It plunged and tacked and veered.

    Synonyms

    * (to avoid) duck, evade, fudge, skirt

    Derived terms

    * dodge a bullet * dodger * dodgy

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An act of dodging
  • A trick, evasion or wile