recoil
From LSJ
Κύριε, σῶσον τὸν δοῦλον σου κτλ. → Lord, save your slave ... (mosaic inscription from 4th cent. church in the Negev)
English > Greek (Woodhouse)
verb intransitive
spring back: Ar. and P. ἀναπηδᾶν.
shrink: P. and V. ὀκνεῖν, κατοκνεῖν, P. ἀποκνεῖν.
recoil from (with subs.): P. and V. ἀφίστασθαι (gen.); see shrink from.
recoil from (doing a thing): P. and V. ὀκνεῖν (infin.), κατοκνεῖν (infin.), φεύγω, φεύγειν (infin.), V. ἀφίστασθαι (infin.).
recoil (on one's own head): use P. and V. πίπτειν, τρέπεσθαι.
make to recoil: P. and V. τρέπειν.
