- 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.
- withdraw from office - To let fall; to depress. - To yield or submit; to humble; to lower; as, to demit
one's self to humble duties. - To lay down, as an office; to resign.