Movement
Synonyms for recoil
The synonym for recoil recorded in this bank is flinch, in the sense "to draw back suddenly in fear, surprise, or disgust". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.
The synonym for recoil
- flinchverb, in the sense "to draw back suddenly in fear, surprise, or disgust"
That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and recoil carries one sense so far.
to draw back suddenly in fear, surprise, or disgust
Even seasoned nurses will recoil at the sight of a compound fracture.
The true synonym
flinch
Same sentence, swapped: Even seasoned nurses will flinch at the sight of a compound fracture.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for recoil in the sentence quoted.
- gawk
- swoon
- linger
Where recoil turns up in the game
recoil is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzle where recoil is the trap
- kicknoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is boot, in the sense "the act of delivering a blow with the foot", and recoil is on the board beside it.
Play recoil
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so recoil reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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The ring widens as it goes, from movement at Treeline outward to the whole bank.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. recoil carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.