Word Meanings - FLINCH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To let the foot slip from a ball, when attempting to give a tight croquet. (more info) 1. To withdraw from any suffering or undertaking, from pain or danger; to fail in doing or perserving; to show signs of yielding or of suffering; to shrink;

Additional info about word: FLINCH

To let the foot slip from a ball, when attempting to give a tight croquet. (more info) 1. To withdraw from any suffering or undertaking, from pain or danger; to fail in doing or perserving; to show signs of yielding or of suffering; to shrink; to wince; as, one of the parties flinched from the combat. A child, by a constant course of kindness, may be accustomed to bear very rough usage without flinching or complaining. Locke.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of FLINCH)

• faulter
• Halt
• hesitate
• hobble
• slip
• dubitate
• stammer
• demur
• waver
• flinch
• vacillate
• Quail
• Sink
• shrink
• cower
• succumb
• crouch
• blench
• tremble

Related words: (words related to FLINCH)

• DEMURE
  good manners); de of + murs, mours, meurs, mors, F. m, fr. L. mores manners, morals ; or more prob. fr. OF. meür, F. mûr mature, ripe in a phrase preceded by de, as de 1. Of sober or serious mien; composed and decorous in bearing; of modest
• BLENCH
  deceive; akin to Icel. blekkja to impose upon. Prop. a causative of 1. To shrink; to start back; to draw back, from lack of courage or resolution; to flinch; to quail. Blench not at thy chosen lot. Bryant. This painful, heroic task he undertook,
• WAVERER
  One who wavers; one who is unsettled in doctrine, faith, opinion, or the like. Shak.
• SHRINKINGLY
  In a shrinking manner.
• STAMMERING
  Apt to stammer; hesitating in speech; stuttering. -- Stam"mer*ing*ly, adv.
• CROUCHED
  Marked with the sign of the cross. Crouched friar. See Crutched friar, under Crutched.
• FLINCHER
  One who flinches or fails.
• DEMURRABLE
  That may be demurred to. Stormonth.
• QUAIL
  pain, G. qual torment, OHG. quelan to suffer torment, Lith. gelti to 1. To die; to perish; hence, to wither; to fade. Spenser. 2. To become quelled; to become cast down; to sink under trial or apprehension of danger; to lose the spirit and power
• TREMBLE
  1. To shake involuntarily, as with fear, cold, or weakness; to quake; to quiver; to shiver; to shudder; -- said of a person or an animal. I tremble still with fear. Shak. Frighted Turnus trembled as he spoke. Dryden. 2. To totter; to shake; --
• SHRINKING
  from Shrink. Shrinking head , a body of molten metal connected with a mold for the purpose of supplying metal to compensate for the shrinkage of the casting; -- called also sinking head, and riser.
• DEMURENESS
  The state of being demure; gravity; the show of gravity or modesty.
• HOBBLEBUSH
  A low bush having long, straggling branches and handsome flowers. It is found in the Northern United States. Called also shinhopple.
• WAVERINGLY
  In a wavering manner.
• FLINCH
  To let the foot slip from a ball, when attempting to give a tight croquet. (more info) 1. To withdraw from any suffering or undertaking, from pain or danger; to fail in doing or perserving; to show signs of yielding or of suffering; to shrink;
• WAVERINGNESS
  The quality or state of wavering.
• SHRINKER
  One who shrinks; one who withdraws from danger.
• DEMUR
  To interpose a demurrer. See Demurrer, 2. (more info) fr. L. demorari; de- + morari to delay, tarry, stay, mora delay; prob. originally, time for thinking, reflection, and akin to memor 1. To linger; to stay; to tarry. Yet durst not demur nor abide
• DEMURELY
  In a demure manner; soberly; gravely; -- now, commonly, with a mere show of gravity or modesty. They . . . looked as demurely as they could; for 't was a hanging matter to laugh unseasonably. Dryden.
• VACILLATE
  1. To move one way and the other; to reel or stagger; to waver. is always liable to shift and vacillatefrom one axis to another. Paley. 2. To fluctuate in mind or opinion; to be unsteady or inconstant; to waver. Syn. -- See Fluctuate.
• SEA QUAIL
  The turnstone.
• SQUAIL
  To throw sticls at cocks; to throw anything about awkwardly or irregularly. Southey.