Definition of "recoils" [recoils]

• Plural form of recoil. (noun)

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• "The revolutionist is no starved and diseased slave in the shambles at the bottom of the social pit, but is, in the main, a hearty, well - fed workingman, who sees the shambles waiting for him and his children and recoils from the descent."
• "The will to live of the scab recoils from the menace of broken bones and violent death."
• "That single cell contracts and recoils from the things in its environment uncongenial to its constitution, and the things congenial it draws to itself and absorbs."