Clues for the word "RECOIL"
We've had 61 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 113 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Mindfood Daily crossword on December 29, 2025.
Definition of recoil
- v. i. - To start, roll, bound, spring, or fall back; to take a reverse motion; to be driven or forced backward; to return.
- v. i. - To draw back, as from anything repugnant, distressing, alarming, or the like; to shrink.
- v. i. - To turn or go back; to withdraw one's self; to retire.
- v. t. - To draw or go back.
- n. - A starting or falling back; a rebound; a shrinking; as, the recoil of nature, or of the blood.
- n. - The state or condition of having recoiled.
- n. - Specifically, the reaction or rebounding of a firearm when discharged.
Referring Clues
- Show disgust
- Rifle effect
- Pistol's kickback
- Colt kickback
- Draw back
- Display horror, perhaps
- Flinch
- Shrink back in horror
- Shrink back
- Shrink in fear
- Kickback, of a sort
- Glock's kick
- Pull back from
- Shrink back in fear
- Draw back in horror
- Shrink pack
- Shrink back (from)
- Gun motion
- Snap back
- Gun jerk
- Rifle's kick
- Cringe
- Pull back, as in horror
- Rifle kick back
- Shrink in horror
- Firing after-effect
- Flinch in horror
- Draw back, as with fear
- (As a firearm) spring back
- Start back having contraceptive on order regularly
- Rebound
- Shrink from bacterium, turning tail, under bottom of sewer
- Curl up again, shy
- Shrink
- Jerk back
- Kick of gun
- Collier left off, possibly to start back
- Spring back after being fired
- Kick into wind again
- Kick, taking fresh wind into account
- Come back after being fired
- Rifle kick
- Spring back
- Kickback for providing fuel for play area
- Kick about the ring
- Backlash from river: source of E coli, perhaps
- Jump back
- Stagger back from run against East wind
- Wind up again and spring back
- Flinch in fear on bend
- Start to find "black gold" under playing field
- Pull back in fear
- The kick one gets from shooting
- Lurch back
- Cannon's kick
- Spring back in disgust or fear
- Fly back
- Shrink, as from a snake?
- Explosive feedback?
- React with horror
- Hop back in horror
Last Seen In
- Mindfood Daily - December 29, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - November 16, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - October 11, 2025
- New York Times - October 04, 2025
- Mirror Daily - September 26, 2025
- Your Life Choices - August 09, 2025
- Daily Quick - June 22, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - April 15, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - February 27, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - January 15, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - January 05, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - January 03, 2025
- Daily Quick - December 13, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - November 15, 2024
- Daily Quick - November 13, 2024
- Mindfood Daily - October 28, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - August 23, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - August 01, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - June 13, 2024
- Mirror Daily - May 10, 2024
- LA Times - May 03, 2024
- Your Life Choices - April 25, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - April 10, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - April 05, 2024
- Mirror Daily - February 22, 2024
- LA Times - December 11, 2023
- New Zealand Herald - November 04, 2023
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - October 02, 2023
- LA Times - July 05, 2023
- Daily Quick - June 22, 2023
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