• v.
    ⦿draw back, as with fear or pain
    lexical concept
  • she flinched when they showed the slaughtering of the calf

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Lexical context

wn:part of speechverb
ontolex:lexicalized sense
  1. enl:cringe
  2. enl:flinch
  3. enl:funk
  4. enl:quail
  5. enl:recoil
  6. enl:shrink
  7. enl:squinch
  8. enl:wince
wn:interlingual indexili:i32051

Other

skos:is in schemeOpen English WordNet
rdfs:label
  • cringeflinchfunkquailrecoilshrinksquinchwince
  • cringeflinchfunkquail