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to ricochet
01
to spring back from an impact by bouncing off a surface at an angle
Intransitive: to ricochet somewhere
Grammatical Information
Composition
Simple
movement verb
regular
present tense
ricochet
3rd person singular
ricochets
present participle
ricocheting
past simple
ricocheted
past participle
ricocheted
Examples
The bullet ricocheted off the metal wall, narrowly missing the target.
Ricochet
01
a glancing rebound
Grammatical Information
animacy status
inanimate
Composition
Simple
countable
plural form
ricochets
