flinch
Meaning of flinch
verb
- make a quick, nervous movement as an instinctive reaction to fear, pain, or surprise.
she flinched at the acidity in his voice
he had faced death without flinching
- an act of flinching.
‘Don't call me that,’ he said with a flinch
mid 16th century (in the sense ‘slink or sneak off’): from Old French flenchir ‘turn aside’, of West Germanic origin and related to German lenken ‘to guide, steer’.
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Hyphenation of flinch
flinch
- It consists of 1 syllables and 6 chars.
- flinch is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
flinch synonyms
Meaning wince:
Meaning squinch:
squinch, funk, cringe, shrink, wince, recoil, quail
Meaning jerk or give a small jump from surprise or alarm:
Meaning remove or take away (something) from a particular place or position:
Meaning make a sudden flinching movement out of fear or pain:
Meaning wriggle or twist the body from side to side, especially as a result of nervousness or discomfort:
Meaning tremble or shake with a slight rapid motion:
Meaning (of a person) tremble convulsively, typically as a result of fear or revulsion:
Meaning shake slightly and uncontrollably as a result of being cold, frightened, or excited:
Meaning (of a person, a part of the body, or the voice) shake involuntarily, typically as a result of anxiety, excitement, or frailty:
Meaning (of a person) shake or shudder with fear:
Meaning (of a structure or area of land) tremble or vibrate:
Meaning crouch down in fear:
Meaning move in a quivering way; flicker:
Meaning lose strength or momentum:
Meaning pause in indecision before saying or doing something:
Meaning make white or pale by extracting colour:
Words that rhyme with flinch
inch, hainch, painch, cinch, uncinch, Bulfinch, Chaffinch, Finch, Goldfinch, bullfinch, chaffinch, coldfinch, finch, goldfinch, grassfinch, greenfinch, hawfinch, redfinch, rosefinch, whitfinch, Hinch, chinch, hinch, Kinch, kinch, skinch, Linch, clinch, linch, unclinch, valinch, vellinch, Minch, microinch, apinch, bellypinch, bepinch, nosepinch, pinch, Grinch, crinch, grinch, rinch, scrinch, quinch, squinch, flywinch, winch
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