flinched

VERB

shy away, wince

Synonyms

STRONGEST

balk blanch blink cower cringe recoil

STRONG

avoid blench crouch duck elude escape eschew evade flee quail recede retire retreat shirk shrink shun start swerve withdraw

WEAK

draw back

Antonyms

STRONG

advance face forge meet remain stay stretch take on

WEAK

confront

Example Sentences

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Was there a soldier who carried the Seven Flinched like a coward or fled from the strife?

From Poems Teachers Ask For Selected by readers of "Normal Instructor-Primary Plans" by Various

Flinched? to be sure he did, poor fellow; you received him with so lame a welcome.

From The Confidence-Man by Melville, Herman