All recoiled synonyms
re-coil
R r verb recoiled
- cringed — to shrink, bend, or crouch, especially in fear or servility; cower.
- withdrew — simple past tense of withdraw.
- backfired — Simple past tense and past participle of backfire.
- wormed — Zoology. any of numerous long, slender, soft-bodied, legless, bilaterally symmetrical invertebrates, including the flatworms, roundworms, acanthocephalans, nemerteans, gordiaceans, and annelids.
- cowered — to crouch, as in fear or shame.
- jibbed — to shift from one side to the other when running before the wind, as a fore-and-aft sail or its boom.
- meandered — Simple past tense and past participle of meander.
- winced — to draw back or tense the body, as from pain or from a blow; start; flinch.
- flinched — to draw back or shrink, as from what is dangerous, difficult, or unpleasant.
- jumped — to spring clear of the ground or other support by a sudden muscular effort; leap: to jump into the air; to jump out a window.
- writhed — to twist the body about, or squirm, as in pain, violent effort, etc.
- kicked — Simple past tense and past participle of kick.
- quailed — to lose heart or courage in difficulty or danger; shrink with fear.