Synonyms of the word

flinch

• n. A reflexive jerking away.
• v. To make a sudden, involuntary movement in response to a (usually negative) stimulus; to cringe.
• v. To dodge (a question), to avoid an unpleasant task or duty.
• v. (games) (of the croquet game) To let the foot slip from a ball, when attempting to give a tight croquet.

cringe

• n. A posture or gesture of shrinking or recoiling.
• n. (dialect) A crick.
• n. An embarrassing event, item or behaviour which causes an onlooker to cringe.
• v. (dated, intransitive) To bow or crouch in servility.
• v. (intransitive) To shrink, cower, tense or recoil, as in fear, disgust or embarrassment.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To contract; to draw together; to cause to shrink or wrinkle; to distort.

funk

• n. (obsolete) Spark.
• n. (obsolete) Touchwood, punk, tinder.
• n. (countable) Mental depression.
• n. (uncountable) A state of fear or panic, especially cowardly.
• n. (countable) One who fears or panics; a coward.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To shrink from, or avoid something because of fear.
• v. (transitive) To frighten; to cause to flinch.
• n. (countable) Foul or unpleasant smell, especially body odour.
• n. (uncountable) A style of music derived from 1960s soul music, with elements of rock and other styles,…
• v. (intransitive) To emit an offensive smell; to stink.
• v. (transitive) To envelop with an offensive smell or smoke.

jump

• v. (intransitive) To propel oneself rapidly upward, downward and/or in any horizontal direction such that…
• v. (intransitive) To cause oneself to leave an elevated location and fall downward.
• v. (transitive) To pass by a spring or leap; to overleap.
• v. (intransitive) To employ a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location.
• v. (intransitive) To react to a sudden, often unexpected, stimulus (such as a sharp prick or a loud sound)…
• v. (intransitive) To employ a move in certain board games where one game piece is moved from one legal position…
• v. (transitive) To move to a position in (a queue/line) that is further forward.
• v. (transitive) To attack suddenly and violently.
• v. (transitive) To engage in sexual intercourse.
• v. (transitive) To cause to jump.
• v. (transitive) To move the distance between two opposing subjects.
• v. (transitive) To increase the height of a tower crane by inserting a section at the base of the tower and…
• v. (cycling, intransitive) To increase speed aggressively and without warning.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To expose to danger; to risk; to hazard.
• v. (transitive, smithwork) To join by a buttweld.
• v. To thicken or enlarge by endwise blows; to upset.
• v. (quarrying) To bore with a jumper.
• v. (obsolete) To coincide; to agree; to accord; to tally; followed by with.
• v. (intransitive, computing) To start executing code from a different location, rather than following the…
• n. The act of jumping; a leap; a spring; a bound.
• n. An effort; an attempt; a venture.
• n. (mining) A dislocation in a stratum; a fault.
• n. (architecture) An abrupt interruption of level in a piece of brickwork or masonry.
• n. An instance of propelling oneself upwards.
• n. An instance of causing oneself to fall from an elevated location.
• n. An instance of employing a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location.
• n. An instance of reacting to a sudden stimulus by jerking the body.
• n. A jumping move in a board game.
• n. A button (of a joypad, joystick or similar device) used to make a video game character jump (propel itself…
• n. (sports, horses) An obstacle that forms part of a showjumping course, and that the horse has to jump over…
• n. (with on) An early start or an advantage.
• n. (mathematics) A discontinuity in the graph of a function, where the function is continuous in a punctured…
• n. (science fiction) An instance of faster-than-light travel, not observable from ordinary space.
• n. (computing) A change of the path of execution to a different location.
• adv. (obsolete) exactly; precisely.
• adj. (obsolete) Exact; matched; fitting; precise.
• n. A kind of loose jacket for men.

move

• v. (intransitive) To change place or posture; to stir; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to…
• v. (intransitive) To act; to take action; to stir; to begin to act.
• v. (intransitive) To change residence, for example from one house, town, or state, to another; to go and…
• v. (intransitive, chess, and other games) To change the place of a piece in accordance with the rules of…
• v. (transitive, ergative) To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry,…
• v. (transitive, chess) To transfer (a piece or man) from one space or position to another, according to the…
• v. (transitive) To excite to action by the presentation of motives; to rouse by representation, persuasion,…
• v. (transitive) To arouse the feelings or passions of; especially, to excite to tenderness or compassion,…
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To propose; to recommend; specifically, to propose formally for consideration…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To mention; to raise (a question); to suggest (a course of action); to lodge (a…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To incite, urge (someone to do something); to solicit (someone for or of an issue);…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To apply to, as for aid.
• v. (law, transitive, intransitive) To request an action from the court.
• n. The act of moving; a movement.
• n. An act for the attainment of an object; a step in the execution of a plan or purpose.
• n. A formalized or practiced action used in athletics, dance, physical exercise, self-defense, hand-to-hand…
• n. The event of changing one's residence.
• n. A change in strategy.
• n. A transfer, a change from one employer to another.
• n. (board games) The act of moving a token on a gameboard from one position to another according to the rules…

quail

• v. (intransitive) To waste away; to fade, wither.
• v. (transitive, now rare) To frighten, daunt (someone).
• v. (intransitive) To lose heart or courage; to be daunted, fearful.
• v. (intransitive) Of courage, faith, etc.: to slacken, give way.
• n. Any of various small game birds of the genera Coturnix, Anurophasis or Perdicula in the Old World family…
• n. (uncountable) The meat from this bird eaten as food.
• n. (obsolete) A prostitute, so called because the quail was thought to be a very amorous bird.
• v. To curdle or coagulate, as milk does.

recoil

• n. A starting or falling back; a rebound; a shrinking.
• n. The state or condition of having recoiled.
• n. (firearms) The energy transmitted back to the shooter from a firearm which has fired. Recoil is a function…
• v. (intransitive, now rare) To retreat before an opponent.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To retire, withdraw.
• v. To pull back, especially in disgust, horror or astonishment.
• v. (of a firearm) To kick back when fired.

shrink

• v. (transitive) To cause to become smaller.
• v. (intransitive) To become smaller; to contract.
• v. (intransitive) To cower or flinch.
• v. (transitive) To draw back; to withdraw.
• v. (intransitive, figuratively) To withdraw or retire, as from danger.
• v. (intransitive) To move back or away, especially because of fear or disgust.
• n. Shrinkage; contraction; recoil.
• n. (slang, sometimes pejorative) A psychiatrist or therapist; a head-shrinker.

squinch

• n. (architecture) A structure constructed between two adjacent walls to aid in the transition from a polygonal…
• v. to scrunch up (one's face).

start

• n. The beginning of an activity.
• n. A sudden involuntary movement.
• n. The beginning point of a race, a board game, etc.
• n. An appearance in a sports game from the beginning of the match.
• n. A young plant germinated in a pot to be transplanted later.
• v. (transitive) To begin, commence, initiate.
• v. (intransitive) To begin an activity.
• v. To startle or be startled; to move or be moved suddenly.
• v. (intransitive) To break away, to come loose.
• v. (transitive, sports) To put into play.
• v. (nautical) To pour out; to empty; to tap and begin drawing from.
• v. (euphemistic) To start your periods (menstruation).
• n. A tail, or anything projecting like a tail.
• n. A handle, especially that of a plough.
• n. The curved or inclined front and bottom of a water wheel bucket.
• n. The arm, or level, of a gin, drawn around by a horse.

startle

• v. (intransitive) To move suddenly, or be excited, on feeling alarm; to start.
• v. (transitive) To excite by sudden alarm, surprise, or apprehension; to frighten suddenly and not seriously;…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To deter; to cause to deviate.
• n. A sudden motion or shock caused by an unexpected alarm, surprise, or apprehension of danger.

wince

• n. A sudden movement or gesture of shrinking away.
• n. A reel used in dyeing, steeping, or washing cloth; a winch. It is placed over the division wall between…
• v. (intransitive) To flinch as if in pain or distress.
• v. (transitive) To wash (cloth), dip it in dye, etc., with the use of a wince.
• v. To kick or flounce when unsteady or impatient.