Skip to main content

flinch

/flinch/US // flɪntʃ //UK // (flɪntʃ) //

畏缩,畏缩不前,望而却步,畏畏缩缩

Related Words

Definitions

v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to draw back or shrink, as from what is dangerous, difficult, or unpleasant.
    • : to shrink under pain; wince.
    • : Croquet. to let the foot slip from the ball in the act of croqueting.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to draw back or withdraw from.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an act of flinching.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • I find it fascinating when friends scoff at a $300 price tag for a mattress that they will spend hundreds of hours sleeping on, but won’t flinch at thousands of dollars for a ski kit that will see dozens of hours of use in a good season.

  • If either of you flinches, then don’t count on another six months.

  • He doesn’t flinch at questions about being identified as a key offender in one of the game’s most infamous cheating scandals during his former job as bench coach of the Houston Astros.

  • She leaned in and corrected the line of silver above Taylor Jo’s right eye, disturbed a little by the girl’s flinch.

  • No plans or preparation would have gotten me ready for this kind of adversity, but like I told my wife, we can’t flinch.

  • In the video, Solange smacks and kicks her brother-in-law while Beyonce DOESN'T EVEN FLINCH.

  • Kenyatta made a Bush-like vow to continue the war on Al-Shabab, saying, “We will not flinch.”

  • When I reminded him that that could mean hundreds of offspring showing up on his doorstep, he didn't flinch.

  • We sat around all night in briefings discussing what each flinch and kick meant for its recovery and if we could save it in time.

  • We pressed here and watched it kick and then we pressed there and watched it flinch.

  • Her quiet eyes, held by his during the spell that had bound them speechless, did not flinch at the breaking of it.

  • From where he sat watching—curious to see what Cash would do—Bud saw him flinch and stiffen as a man does under pain.

  • He too must work; he must not trust altogether to Texas Smith; the scoundrel might flinch, or might fail.

  • Two bullets went through the boy's hat; then a splinter cut through his clothes; still he did not flinch.

  • To tell you the truth, it was something terrible, but though I didn't like it I wouldn't flinch.

flinch - EE Dictionary | EE Dictionary