All 5 Uses of
recoil
in
The Bourne Identity
- The languages, your knowledge of geography-cities I've never or barely heard of-your obsession for avoiding the use of names, names you want to say but won't; your propensity for confrontation-attack, recoil, hide, run-all rather violent, I might add.†
Chpt 1recoil = to move backward suddenly
- The netman recoiled, then lunged toward him in pain and fury, his hands outstretched like claws.†
Chpt 2 *recoiled = moved back suddenly
- And with each crack, pain jolted him, bolts searing one after another through his head, his mind and body recoiling under the onslaught of the name.†
Chpt 17
- "Marseilles?" the Lavier woman recoiled.†
Chpt 17recoiled = moved back suddenly
- He lurched backward, recoiling into the wall, his hands in front of his eyes.†
Chpt 17
Definition:
to move backward suddenly (sometimes figuratively)
especially:
- the backward jerk of a gun or cannon when it is fired
- when a person flinches (suddenly draws back) from someone or something, as with fear, disgust, or pain
- when a person is emotionally repulsed, as by disgust
- when something intended to go in one direction figuratively falls back in the opposite direction; for example, a story told to hurt someone that comes back to hurt the teller