What is another word for "recoil"?

Roget's Thesaurus (1911) lists these synonyms for "recoil": accusation, action, against, alacrity, although, and, another, antagonism, antagonistic, antagonize, aversation, averseness, back, backwardness, baleen, beat, beau, bit, biter, block, blow, boomerang, bounce, bound, buoyancy, buoyant, can, caoutchouc, cap, catch, check, clash, coefficient, coin, collision, compensate, compensation, compliment, conflict, conflicting.

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