All 6 Uses of
recoil
in
Interview with the Vampire
- The boy recoiled, sweat running down the sides of his face.†
Part 1recoiled = moved back suddenly
- I recoiled and might have fled from Lestat, my sanity thoroughly shattered, had not he sensed with an infallible instinct what was happening.†
Part 1
- I recoiled.†
Part 1
- 'Your skin's icy,' she said, recoiling slightly.
Part 1 *recoiling = drawing back (moving away)
- His lips were trembling, and his face so distorted now by his sudden desperation that I might have recoiled from it despite myself.†
Part 2recoiled = moved back suddenly
- The swarming of the insects on the rotted animals scratched at my senses so that I recoiled despite myself, despite Lestat's desperate pleas for me to come to him.†
Part 4
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