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quailverb to draw back in fear, pain, or disgustwe quailed when the waiter unexpectedly presented us with a hindquarter of frog's legs blench, cringe, flinch, recoil, shrink, squinch, wince blanch, pale, whitenquake, quiver, shake, shudder, tremblecrouchjerk, start, twitchrecede, retire, retreat, withdrawfalter, hesitate, reel, waver advance, approach, nearbeard, challenge, confront, defy, face to draw back or crouch down in fearful submissionbrave resisters who did not quail before the tyrant's iron hand cower, cringe, grovel flinch, recoil, shrink, squinchblanch, blench, whitenfawn, kowtow, toady recoil, shrink, flinch, wince, blench, quail mean to draw back in fear or distaste.recoil implies a start or movement away through shock, fear, or disgust.recoiled at the suggestion of stealing shrink suggests an instinctive recoil through sensitiveness, scrupulousness, or cowardice.shrank from the unpleasant truth flinch implies a failure to endure pain or face something dangerous or frightening with resolution.faced her accusers without flinching wince suggests a slight involuntary physical reaction (such as a start or recoiling).winced in pain blench implies fainthearted flinching.stood their ground without blenching quail suggests shrinking and cowering in fear.quailed before the apparition in the 14th century |