Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To start or wince involuntarily, as from surprise or pain.
- intransitive verb To recoil, as from something unpleasant or difficult; shrink.
- noun An act or instance of starting, wincing, or recoiling.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
flense . - To give way to fear or to a sense of pain; shrink back from anything painful or dangerous; manifest a feeling or a fear of suffering or injury of any kind; draw back from any act or undertaking through dread of consequences; shrink; wince: as, the pain was severe, but he did not flinch.
- In croquet, to allow the foot to slip from the ball in the act of croqueting.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb 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.
- intransitive verb (Croquet) To let the foot slip from a ball, when attempting to give a tight croquet.
- noun The act of flinching.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
reflexive jerking away. - verb To make a sudden, involuntary movement in response to a (usually negative) stimulus.
- verb To dodge (a question), to avoid an unpleasant task or duty
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb draw back, as with fear or pain
- noun a reflex response to sudden pain
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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"Butt flinch" is when you're working on a construction site and someone entirely too fat and in need of suspenders gives you a vision that makes you want to have your memory erased.
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This was no time to flinch from the British weather; the fate of the Province rested on my reaching the next mile castle.
zornhau: My Eagle of the Ninth zornhau 2010
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"Butt flinch" is when you're working on a construction site and someone entirely too fat and in need of suspenders gives you a vision that makes you want to have your memory erased.
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Come now, youre an intelligent woman, and you dont flinch from the truth.
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As for accuracy, I find if installed correctly they will shoot just as well if not better because of the reduction in flinch factor.
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As for accuracy, I find if installed correctly they will shoot just as well if not better because of the reduction in flinch factor.
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I think that for a lot of people on the transition, the instinctive response to this is going to be to cause people to flinch from the idea of a serious effort at peacemaking.
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However, I forgive him for having the courage to go after some rather unsavory plot developments, no holds barred, and not flinch from the nastier things his protagonists do.
is it just another children's story that's been declawed? ashacat 2007
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I've since switched to a 20 gauge and suprise, my flinch is gone and the deer still die when you shoot them.
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Boddington says the only way to cure a flinch is shooting a 22lr a LOT.
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