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recoil | redux |

As a noun recoil

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

As a verb recoil

is .

As an adjective redux is

(of a topic) redone, restored, brought back, or revisited.

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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    redux

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (of a topic) Redone, restored, brought back, or revisited.
  • Company policy redux .
    Dirty tricks redux .
  • * 2004 , Robert A. Levy, Shakedown: How Corporations, Government, and Trial Lawyers Abuse the Judicial Process , page 265:
  • 10. It's Microsoft Redux All Over Again. Maybe the fat lady hasn't crooned the final note, but the petite lady who carried the most weight, US District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, wrote the denouement to the Microsoft antitrust fiasco.

    Usage notes

    is always used attributively and after the noun rather than before it.

    See also

    * redo * rediscuss

    References

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