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quailedverbpast tense of quail to draw back in fear, pain, or disgustwe quailed when the waiter unexpectedly presented us with a hindquarter of frog's legs blenched, cringed, flinched, recoiled, shrank(or shrunk), squinched, winced blanched, paled, whitenedquaked, quivered, shook, shuddered, trembledcrouchedjerked, started, twitchedreceded, retired, retreated, withdrewfaltered, hesitated, reeled, wavered advanced, approached, nearedbearded, challenged, confronted, defied, faced to draw back or crouch down in fearful submissionbrave resisters who did not quail before the tyrant's iron hand cowered, cringed, groveled(or grovelled) flinched, recoiled, shrank(or shrunk), squinchedblanched, blenched, whitenedfawned, kowtowed, toadied |