Synonyms of the word

ricochet

• n. (military) A method of firing a projectile so that it skips along a surface.
• n. An instance of ricocheting; a glancing rebound.
• v. To rebound off something wildly in a seemingly random direction.
• v. (military) To operate upon by ricochet firing.

backlash

• n. A sudden backward motion.
• n. A negative reaction, objection or outcry, especially of a violent or abrupt nature.
• n. (mechanics) The distance through which one part of connected machinery, as a wheel, piston, or screw,…
• n. The jarring or reflex motion caused in badly fitting machinery by irregularities in velocity or a reverse…
• v. To cause or set off a backlash.

bounce

• v. (intransitive) To change the direction of motion after hitting an obstacle.
• v. (intransitive) To move quickly up and then down, or vice versa, once or repeatedly.
• v. (transitive) To cause to move quickly up and down, or back and forth, once or repeatedly.
• v. (transitive, colloquial) To suggest or introduce (an idea, etc.) to (off or by) somebody, in order to…
• v. (intransitive) To leap or spring suddenly or unceremoniously; to bound.
• v. (intransitive, informal, of a cheque/check) To be refused by a bank because it is drawn on insufficient…
• v. (transitive, informal) To fail to cover (have sufficient funds for) (a draft presented against one's account).
• v. (intransitive, slang) To leave.
• v. (US, slang, dated) To eject violently, as from a room; to discharge unceremoniously, as from employment.
• v. (intransitive, slang, African American Vernacular) (sometimes employing the preposition with) To have…
• v. (transitive, air combat) To attack unexpectedly.
• v. (intransitive, electronics) To turn power off and back on; to reset.
• v. (intransitive, Internet, of an e-mail message or address) To return undelivered.
• v. (intransitive, aviation) To land hard and lift off again due to excess momentum.
• v. (intransitive, skydiving) To land hard on unsurvivable velocity with fatal results.
• v. (slang, dated) To bully; to scold.
• v. (archaic) To strike or thump, so as to rebound, or to make a sudden noise; to knock loudly.
• v. (archaic) To boast; to bluster.
• n. A change of direction of motion after hitting the ground or an obstacle.
• n. A movement up and then down (or vice versa), once or repeatedly.
• n. An email return with any error.
• n. The sack, licensing.
• n. A bang, boom.
• n. A drink based on brandy^W.
• n. A heavy, sudden, and often noisy, blow or thump.
• n. Bluster; brag; untruthful boasting; audacious exaggeration; an impudent lie; a bouncer.
• n. Scyllium catulus, a European dogfish.
• n. A genre of New Orleans music.
• n. (slang, African American Vernacular) Drugs..
• n. (slang, African American Vernacular) Swagger..
• n. (slang, African American Vernacular) A 'good' beat.
• n. (slang, African American Vernacular) A talent for leaping..

bound

• v. simple past tense and past participle of bind.
• adj. (with infinitive) Obliged (to).
• adj. (with infinitive) Very likely (to).
• adj. (linguistics, of a morpheme) That cannot stand alone as a free word.
• adj. (mathematics, logic, of a variable) Constrained by a quantifier.
• adj. (dated) constipated; costive.
• adj. Confined or restricted to a certain place; e.g. railbound.
• adj. Unable to move in certain conditions; e.g. snowbound.
• n. (often used in plural) A boundary, the border which one must cross in order to enter or leave a territory.
• n. (mathematics) a value which is known to be greater or smaller than a given set of values.
• v. To surround a territory or other geographical entity.
• v. (mathematics) To be the boundary of.
• n. A sizeable jump, great leap.
• n. A spring from one foot to the other in dancing.
• n. (dated) A bounce; a rebound.
• v. (intransitive) To leap, move by jumping.
• v. (transitive) To cause to leap.
• v. (intransitive, dated) To rebound; to bounce.
• v. (transitive, dated) To cause to rebound; to throw so that it will rebound; to bounce.
• adj. (obsolete) ready, prepared.
• adj. ready, able to start or go (to); moving in the direction (of).

carom

• n. (cue sports, especially billiards) A shot in which the ball struck with the cue comes in contact with…
• n. A billiard-like Indian game in which players take turns flicking checker-like pieces into one of four…
• v. (intransitive) To make a carom (shot in billiards).
• v. To strike and bounce back; to strike (something) and rebound.
• n. (spices) ajwain.

jump

• v. (intransitive) To propel oneself rapidly upward, downward and/or in any horizontal direction such that…
• v. (intransitive) To cause oneself to leave an elevated location and fall downward.
• v. (transitive) To pass by a spring or leap; to overleap.
• v. (intransitive) To employ a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location.
• v. (intransitive) To react to a sudden, often unexpected, stimulus (such as a sharp prick or a loud sound)…
• v. (intransitive) To employ a move in certain board games where one game piece is moved from one legal position…
• v. (transitive) To move to a position in (a queue/line) that is further forward.
• v. (transitive) To attack suddenly and violently.
• v. (transitive) To engage in sexual intercourse.
• v. (transitive) To cause to jump.
• v. (transitive) To move the distance between two opposing subjects.
• v. (transitive) To increase the height of a tower crane by inserting a section at the base of the tower and…
• v. (cycling, intransitive) To increase speed aggressively and without warning.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To expose to danger; to risk; to hazard.
• v. (transitive, smithwork) To join by a buttweld.
• v. To thicken or enlarge by endwise blows; to upset.
• v. (quarrying) To bore with a jumper.
• v. (obsolete) To coincide; to agree; to accord; to tally; followed by with.
• v. (intransitive, computing) To start executing code from a different location, rather than following the…
• n. The act of jumping; a leap; a spring; a bound.
• n. An effort; an attempt; a venture.
• n. (mining) A dislocation in a stratum; a fault.
• n. (architecture) An abrupt interruption of level in a piece of brickwork or masonry.
• n. An instance of propelling oneself upwards.
• n. An instance of causing oneself to fall from an elevated location.
• n. An instance of employing a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location.
• n. An instance of reacting to a sudden stimulus by jerking the body.
• n. A jumping move in a board game.
• n. A button (of a joypad, joystick or similar device) used to make a video game character jump (propel itself…
• n. (sports, horses) An obstacle that forms part of a showjumping course, and that the horse has to jump over…
• n. (with on) An early start or an advantage.
• n. (mathematics) A discontinuity in the graph of a function, where the function is continuous in a punctured…
• n. (science fiction) An instance of faster-than-light travel, not observable from ordinary space.
• n. (computing) A change of the path of execution to a different location.
• adv. (obsolete) exactly; precisely.
• adj. (obsolete) Exact; matched; fitting; precise.
• n. A kind of loose jacket for men.

leap

• v. (intransitive) To jump.
• v. (transitive) To pass over by a leap or jump.
• v. (transitive) To copulate with (a female beast); to cover.
• v. (transitive) To cause to leap.
• n. The act of leaping or jumping.
• n. The distance traversed by a leap or jump.
• n. (figuratively) A significant move forward.
• n. (mining) A fault.
• n. Copulation with, or coverture of, a female beast.
• n. (music) A passing from one note to another by an interval, especially by a long one, or by one including…
• n. (obsolete) A basket.
• n. A weel or wicker trap for fish.
• n. (calendar) Intercalary, bissextile.
• n. (figuratively) Synonym of exaggeration.
• n. basket.
• n. a trap or snare for fish.
• n. half a bushel.

rebound

• n. The recoil of an object bouncing off another.
• n. A return to health or well-being; a recovery.
• n. An effort to recover from a setback.
• n. A romantic partner with whom one begins a relationship (or the relationship one begins) for the sake of…
• n. (sports) The strike of the ball after it has bounced off a defending player, the crossbar or goalpost.
• n. (basketball) An instance of catching the ball after it has hit the rim or backboard without a basket being…
• v. To bound or spring back from a force.
• v. To give back an echo.
• v. (figuratively) To jump up or get back up again.
• v. (transitive) To send back; to reverberate.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of rebind.

recoil

• n. A starting or falling back; a rebound; a shrinking.
• n. The state or condition of having recoiled.
• n. (firearms) The energy transmitted back to the shooter from a firearm which has fired. Recoil is a function…
• v. (intransitive, now rare) To retreat before an opponent.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To retire, withdraw.
• v. To pull back, especially in disgust, horror or astonishment.
• v. (of a firearm) To kick back when fired.

repercussion

• n. A consequence or ensuing result of some action.
• n. The act of driving back, or the state of being driven back; reflection; reverberation.
• n. (music) Rapid reiteration of the same sound.
• n. (medicine) The subsidence of a tumour or eruption by the action of a repellent.
• n. (obstetrics) In a vaginal examination, the act of imparting through the uterine wall with the finger a…

resile

• v. To start back; to recoil; to recede from a purpose.
• v. To spring back; rebound; resume the original form or position, as an elastic body.

reverberate

• v. (intransitive) to ring with many echos.
• v. (intransitive) to have a lasting effect.
• v. (intransitive) to repeatedly return.
• v. To return or send back; to repel or drive back; to echo, as sound; to reflect, as light, as light or heat.
• v. To send or force back; to repel from side to side.
• v. To fuse by reverberated heat.
• v. (intransitive) to rebound or recoil.
• v. (intransitive) to shine or reflect (from a surface, etc.).
• v. (obsolete) to shine or glow (on something) with reflected light.
• adj. reverberant.
• adj. Driven back, as sound; reflected.

spring

• v. To jump or leap.
• v. To pass over by leaping.
• v. To produce or disclose unexpectedly, especially of surprises, traps, etc.
• v. (slang) To release or set free, especially from prison.
• v. To come into being, often quickly or sharply.
• v. To start or rise suddenly, as from a covert.
• v. To cause to spring up; to start or rouse, as game; to cause to rise from the earth, or from a covert.
• v. (nautical) To crack or split; to bend or strain so as to weaken.
• v. To bend by force, as something stiff or strong; to force or put by bending, as a beam into its sockets,…
• v. To issue with speed and violence; to move with activity; to dart; to shoot.
• v. To fly back.
• v. (intransitive) To bend from a straight direction or plane surface; to become warped.
• v. To shoot up, out, or forth; to come to the light; to begin to appear; to emerge, like a plant from its…
• v. To issue or proceed, as from a parent or ancestor; to result, as from a cause, motive, reason, or principle.
• v. (obsolete) To grow; to prosper.
• v. (architecture, masonry, transitive) To build (an arch).
• v. (transitive, archaic) To sound (a rattle, such as a watchman's rattle).
• n. A leap; a bound; a jump.
• n. (countable) Traditionally the first of the four seasons of the year in temperate regions, in which plants…
• n. (countable) Meteorologically, the months of March, April and May in the northern hemisphere or September,…
• n. (countable) The astronomically delineated period from the moment of vernal equinox, approximately March…
• n. (countable) Spring tide; a tide of greater-than-average range, that is, around the first or third quarter…
• n. (countable) A place where water emerges from the ground.
• n. (uncountable) The property of a body of springing to its original form after being compressed, stretched,…
• n. Elastic power or force.
• n. (countable) A mechanical device made of flexible or coiled material that exerts force when it is bent,…
• n. (countable, slang) An erection of the penis.
• n. (countable) The source of an action or of a supply.
• n. Any active power; that by which action, or motion, is produced or propagated; cause; origin; motive.
• n. That which springs, or is originated, from a source.
• n. (obsolete) That which causes one to spring; specifically, a lively tune.
• n. The time of growth and progress; early portion; first stage.
• n. (countable, nautical) A rope attaching the bow of a vessel to the stern-side of the jetty, or vice versa,…
• n. (nautical) A line led from a vessel's quarter to her cable so that by tightening or slacking it she can…
• n. (nautical) A crack or fissure in a mast or yard, running obliquely or transversely.