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recuile

recuile is the obsolete form of recoil.

Meaning of recoil

Verb

recoil (third-person singular simple present recoils, present participle recoiling, simple past and past participle recoiled)

  1. (intransitive) To pull back, especially in disgust, horror or astonishment.
    • He recoiled in disgust when he saw the mess.
  2. (archaic, intransitive) To recoil before an opponent.
    • that rude rout […] forced them, how ever strong and stout / They were, as well approv'd in many a doubt, / Backe to recule […]1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
  3. (intransitive) Of a firearm: to quickly push back when fired.
  4. (intransitive, obsolete) To retire, withdraw.
    • Ye both forwearied be: therefore a whyle / Iread you rest, and to your bowres recoyle.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

See all 8 meanings of recoil

Forms of recuile

third-person singular presentrecuiles
present participlerecuiling
past participlerecuiled
pastrecuiled

Questions about recuile

What is recuile the obsolete form of?
Recuile is the obsolete form of recoil.

Words near recuile in the dictionary

  1. recubant
  2. recubation
  3. recueil
  4. recueils
  5. recuff
  6. recuile
  7. recuiled
  8. recuiles
  9. recuiling
  10. recule
  11. reculed

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