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quailsverbpresent tense third-person singular of quail to draw back in fear, pain, or disgustwe quailed when the waiter unexpectedly presented us with a hindquarter of frog's legs blenches, cringes, flinches, recoils, shrinks, squinches, winces blanches, pales, whitensquakes, quivers, shakes, shudders, tremblescrouchesjerks, starts, twitchesrecedes, retires, retreats, withdrawsfalters, hesitates, reels, wavers advances, approaches, nearsbeards, challenges, confronts, defies, faces to draw back or crouch down in fearful submissionbrave resisters who did not quail before the tyrant's iron hand cowers, cringes, grovels flinches, recoils, shrinks, squinchesblanches, blenches, whitensfawns, kowtows, toadies |