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verb (used without object)

to draw back or shrink, as from what is dangerous, difficult, or unpleasant.

to shrink under pain; wince.

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verb (used with object)

to draw back or withdraw from.

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noun

an act of flinching.

Origin:
1555–65; perhaps nasalized variant of dial. flitch to flit, shift one's position

Related forms

flinch·er, noun

flinch·ing·ly, adverb

Synonyms
1. recoil, withdraw, blench.

Example Sentences

Gandhi said that he would not flinch at calling a general strike.

He would, for instance, mark that a monkey had turned its head when the monkey didn't so much as flinch.

But her judgments are so sweeping and harsh that the fair-minded reader may flinch a bit.

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Gandhi said that he would not flinch at calling a general strike.

He would, for instance, mark that a monkey had turned its head when the monkey didn't so much as flinch.

But her judgments are so sweeping and harsh that the fair-minded reader may flinch a bit.

Yet when the time of testing came for him and his contemporaries, they did not flinch.

Life- changing because you will never again have to flinch when a guest spills red wine or a child drops a hot dog.

They retain their native intelligence and when guided towards an obvious threat or a difficult obstacle, they flinch and recoil.

Pierce doesn't flinch from matter-of-fact descriptions, but she's not gory about it, either.

Though this column strives mightily to preserve its nonpartisan approach, it cannot flinch from etymological controversy.

Many flinch at these revisions, but utopia will not come without hardwork.

Horwitz decided not to flinch from the dated material.

Zalewski, who operated on her, didn't flinch when he saw the size of her thyroid.

Not hard to make people flinch and get all stressed out.

Nour, a gynecologist and obstetrician, will not flinch when she sees their.

And as a single woman, it always makes me flinch when this happens.

If you can suspend belief on those points, and don't flinch from the sight of blood and.

I've quickly learned that you can't flinch at pork products.

Even the toughest customers flinch when a sharp syringe meets their.

Needed were men of ambition who would not flinch at orders to torture or imprison their fellow citizens.

They flinch at the sight of an administrator, and they put up grim signs:.

He told parents to respect their children but not to flinch from insisting that this respect be returned.

The uninitiated may flinch at the notion of washing down food with a pungent spirit.

Johnson did not flinch from confronting his caucus when he needed to, and neither.

Your incredibly lopsided response makes me flinch with consternation.

They do not flinch from punches and are not afraid to draw blood.

His memories of the siege cause him to flinch at loud sounds and leave him terrified of low-flying planes.

The movie doesn't flinch from portraying the resulting emotional tumult.

We lean in for a grounder, then flinch on a short hop.

The deal followed months of jockeying over the possible plea, with lawyers on each side waiting for the other to flinch.

He pulled out a revolver and blasted three shots in the air, but the horse did not flinch.

He barely had time to flinch before he was struck full in the chest.

But in the flinch and bite of the chain, when it's all you've got, that freedom is a universe of possibility.

Humanitarians tend to flinch at the idea of marketing, thinking that's what you do with toothpaste.

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verb (used with object)

flense.

Link To flinch

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World English Dictionary

flense, flench or flinch (flɛns, flɛntʃ, flɪntʃ)

—vb
	(tr) to strip (a whale, seal, etc) of (its blubber or skin)

[C19: from Danish flense; related to Dutch flensen]

flench, flench or flinch

—vb

[C19: from Danish flense; related to Dutch flensen]

flinch, flench or flinch

—vb

[C19: from Danish flense; related to Dutch flensen]

'flenser, flench or flinch

—n

'flencher, flench or flinch

—n

'flincher, flench or flinch

—n

flinch¹ (flɪntʃ)

—vb
1.	to draw back suddenly, as from pain, shock, etc; wince: he flinched as the cold water struck him
2.	(often foll by from) to avoid contact (with); shy away: he never flinched from his duty

—n
3.	the act or an instance of drawing back
4.	a card game in which players build sequences

[C16: from Old French flenchir; related to Middle High German lenken to bend, direct]

'flincher¹

—n

'flinchingly¹

—*adv*

flinch² (flɪntʃ)

—vb
	a variant of flense

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Word Origin & History

flinch

1570s, from obsolete flecche "to bend, flinch," probably from O.Fr. flenchir "to bend," from Frank. *hlankjan (cf. M.H.G. linken, Ger. lenken "to bend, turn, lead"). Related: Flinched; flinching.

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