failure to recoil

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• recoil — vb 1 Recoil, shrink, flinch, wince, blench, quail can all mean to draw back from something, usually through fear, faintheartedness, or disgust. Recoil more than any of the succeeding terms suggests the physical signs of such drawing back or the… …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

• recoil — I. intransitive verb Etymology: Middle English reculen, recoilen, from Anglo French reculer, recuiler, from re + cul backside more at culet Date: 14th century 1. a. to fall back under pressure b. to shrink back physically or emotionally 2. to… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• backfire — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. i. boomerang, go awry. See failure, violence, recoil. II (Roget s IV) v. 1. [To explode] Syn. burst, erupt, detonate; see explode 1 . 2. [To go awry] Syn. boomerang, recoil, rebound, ricochet, bounce… …   English dictionary for students

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• Pedersen rifle — The Pedersen Rifle, officially known in final form as the T1E3 rifle, was a United States semi automatic rifle designed by John Pedersen that was made in small numbers for testing by the United States Army during the 1920s as part of a program to …   Wikipedia

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