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
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.
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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.
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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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