Dictionary entry

Re‑coil

Pronunciation

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Myanmar Meaning

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Definition

recoil /r'kↄl/ v ၁။ ~ (from sb/sth) ; ~ (at sth) (က) တြန္႔ဆုတ္ သည္။ လန္႔သည္။ He recoiled in horror at the sight of the corpse. ❍ She recoiled from his embrace. (ခ) ရြံ႕သည္။ လက္ရြံ႕သည္။ He recoiled from the idea of killing another man. ၂။ (ေသနတ္၊ အေျမာက္) ကန္သည္။ /'ri:kↄl/ n [U, sing] ေနာက္ျပန္ကန္ျခင္း။ ❏ recoil on sb [ PHRV ] ( fml ) ျပန္ပက္သည္။

Examples

  1. She felt him recoil from her.
  2. She recoiled in horror at the thought of it.