| coil | (verb) wind around something in coils or loops | Synonyms: curl, loop |
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| (verb) make without a potter's wheel | Synonyms: hand-build, handbuild |
| (verb) to wind or move in a spiral course | Synonyms: gyrate, spiral |
| recoil | (verb) spring back, as from a forceful thrust | Synonyms: kick, kick back |
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| (verb) draw back, as with fear or pain | Synonyms: cringe, flinch, funk, quail, shrink, squinch, wince |
| (verb) spring back; spring away from an impact | Synonyms: bounce, bound, rebound, resile, reverberate, ricochet, spring, take a hop |
| (verb) come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect | Synonyms: backfire, backlash |
| uncoil | (verb) unwind or untwist | - |
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