flinch

flinch has 5 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 6.

Definitions

• v. i.. To withdraw from any suffering or undertaking, from pain or danger; to fail in doing or perserving; to show signs of yielding or of suffering; to shrink; to wince; as, one of the parties flinched from the combat.
• v. i.. To let the foot slip from a ball, when attempting to give a tight croquet.
• n.. The act of flinching.
• n.. a reflex response to sudden pain
• v.. draw back, as with fear or pain; "she flinched when they showed the slaughtering of the calf"