- Cower
- Flinch
- Grovel
- Make oneself fearfully small
- Quail
- Recoil in fear
- Ring swallowed by church quail
- Quail
- Recoil
- Show pain
- Standing in community
- 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.
- To let the foot slip from a ball, when attempting to
give a tight croquet.
- The act of flinching.