recoil
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～ spring back; spring away from an impact; "The rubber ball bounced"; "These particles do not resile but they unite after they collide"
recoil
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～ come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect; "Your comments may backfire and cause you a lot of trouble"; "the political movie backlashed on the Democrats"
recoil
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～ draw back, as with fear or pain; "she flinched when they showed the slaughtering of the calf"
recoil
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～ spring back, as from a forceful thrust; "The gun kicked back into my shoulder"
recollect
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～ recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection; "I can't remember saying any such thing"; "I can't think what her last name was"; "can you remember her phone number?"; "Do you remember that he once loved you?"; "call up memories"
recombine
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～ cause genetic recombination; "should scientists recombine DNA?"
recombine
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～ undergo genetic recombination; "The DNA can recombine"
recombine
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～ to combine or put together again
recommence
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～ begin again; "we recommenced his reading after a short nap"
recommence
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～ cause to start anew; "The enemy recommenced hostilities after a few days of quiet"
recommend
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～ push for something; "The travel agent recommended strongly that we not travel on Thanksgiving Day"
recommend
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～ express a good opinion of
recommend
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～ make attractive or acceptable; "Honesty recommends any person"
recommit
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～ commit again; "It was recommitted into her custody"
recommit
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～ send back to a committee; "The bill was recommitted three times in the House"
recommit
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～ commit once again, as of a crime
recompense
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～ make amends for; pay compensation for; "One can never fully repair the suffering and losses of the Jews in the Third Reich"; "She was compensated for the loss of her arm in the accident"
recompense
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～ make payment to; compensate; "My efforts were not remunerated"
reconcile
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～ make (one thing) compatible with (another); "The scientists had to accommodate the new results with the existing theories"
reconcile
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～ accept as inevitable; "He resigned himself to his fate"