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verb-intransitive. To start or wince involuntarily, as from surprise or pain.

verb-intransitive. To recoil, as from something unpleasant or difficult; shrink.

n. An act or instance of starting, wincing, or recoiling.

n. A reflexive jerking away.

v. To make a sudden, involuntary movement in response to a (usually negative) stimulus.

v. To dodge (a question), to avoid an unpleasant task or duty

verb-intransitive. 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.

verb-intransitive. To let the foot slip from a ball, when attempting to give a tight croquet.

n. The act of flinching.

To give way to fear or to a sense of pain; shrink back from anything painful or dangerous; manifest a feeling or a fear of suffering or injury of any kind; draw back from any act or undertaking through dread of consequences; shrink; wince: as, the pain was severe, but he did not flinch.

In croquet, to allow the foot to slip from the ball in the act of croqueting.

Same as flense.

v. draw back, as with fear or pain

n. a reflex response to sudden pain

"Come now, you’re an intelligent woman, and you don’t flinch from the truth."

flinched    flinches    flinching   

start    startle    jump   

flinched    flinching   

shrink    wince    shrine   

Lynch    Minch    cinch    clinch    finch    grinch    hinch    inch    kinch    linch