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Flinch   /flɪntʃ/   Listen
verb
Flinch  v. i.  (past & past part. flinched; pres. part. flinching)  
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."
2.
(Croquet) To let the foot slip from a ball, when attempting to give a tight croquet.


noun
Flinch  n.  The act of flinching.





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"Flinch" Quotes from Famous Books



... for years appeared so weak and witless, possessed in reality that fine quality of brain and heart which is so often a prey to the temptation of intoxicants. He was now working out all the theory of the new life in a mind that would not flinch before, or shirk the gleams of truth struck from, sharp contact of fact with fact as the days and hours knocked them together. For this reason it could not be that his path would remain that plain path in which a man could ...
— The Zeit-Geist • Lily Dougall
... flinch. He said desperately, in a harsh voice, "You have to take what comes to you in life," ...
— The Brimming Cup • Dorothy Canfield Fisher
... two of the worst lines in mere expression. 'Blench' is perhaps miswritten for 'blanch;' if not, I don't understand the word. Blench signifies to flinch. If 'blanch' be the word, the next ought to be 'hair.' You cannot here use brow for the hair upon it, because a white brow or forehead is a beautiful characteristic of youth. 'Sickly ardor o'er' was at first reading to me unintelligible. I took 'sickly' ...
— The Prose Works of William Wordsworth • William Wordsworth
... a hand or move back an inch, and Slade knew that he faced one whose spirit matched his own, perhaps the one person within a hundred miles who did not fear him. He had tamed men and horses—and women; he raised his arms slowly, deliberately, to see if she would flinch away or stand fast and outgame him. She knew that he was harmless to her—and he knew it. He might perpetrate almost any crime on the calendar and come clear; but in this land where women were few they were ...
— The Settling of the Sage • Hal G. Evarts
... rolling a cigarette with an air of insufferable probity. I gave her up and played a new game of smashing horseflies as they settled on my mount. Dandy Jim plays the game ably. When a big fly settles on his nose he holds his head round so I can reach it. He does not flinch at the terrific smash of my hat across his face. If a fly alights on his neck or shoulder, and I do not remark it, he turns his head slightly toward me and winks, so I can stalk and pot it. He is very crafty here. If the fly is on his right side ...
— Ma Pettengill • Harry Leon Wilson


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