Recoil

Thou shalt not recoil before thine enemy.

The recoil reduces the weapon's accuracy.

She felt that she could sympathise with the feelings of a proud mind, which urged him to recoil from the proffered gratitude of the new proprietors of his father's house and domains.

This is a great rifle to snipe with, if you can handle the recoil.

Interstellar, as opposed to interplanetary, travel was quite impossible until the advent of sub-atomic power. Fortunately this source of power was seldom gained until late in a world's development, when mentality was mature enough to wield this most dangerous of all physical instruments without inevitable disaster. Disasters, however, did occur. Several worlds were accidentally blown to pieces. In others civilization was temporarily destroyed. Sooner or later, however, most of the minded worlds tamed this formidable djin, and set it to work upon a titanic scale, not only in industry, but in such great enterprises as the alteration of planetary orbits for the improvement of climate. This dangerous and delicate process was effected by firing a gigantic sub-atomic rocket-apparatus at such times and places that the recoil would gradually accumulate to divert the planet's course in the desired direction.

He told the lawmakers that the thought of war made him "recoil in horror".

Under normal circumstances, scientists say pain serves an important biological function; a sharp poke with a needle or knifepoint, or slight burn, causes most people to recoil, protecting them from further harm.

Another of Biden’s proposed rules would target stabilizing braces for pistols, which give shooters more accuracy and help to manage recoil as they position them on their shoulders before firing.

The recoil of the ponderous harquebus was too much for poor Winslow's shoulder.

the recoil of nature, or of the blood