のけぞる

¶→頭を急にのけぞらせる

仰けぞる
to bend (backward)
仰反る
to bend back
to throw (the head) back

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のけぞる

¶ → 頭を急にのけぞらせる

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のけぞる【仰け反る】

bend back(ward); bend oneself back; 〔びっくりする〕 be taken aback.

●大きくのけぞって驚く start back in surprise [fear, alarm]

・体をのけぞらせる bend (one's body) backward; bend oneself back.

●二人があっさり交際を認めたので, リポーターは思わずのけぞった. When the two of them frankly admitted they were having an affair, the reporter was taken aback.