| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | An act of drawing back in an involuntary or instinctive fashion: cringe, flinch, shrink, wince. See APPROACH, SEEK. | | VERB: | 1. To draw away involuntarily, usually out of fear or disgust: blench1, cringe, flinch, quail, shrink, shy1, start, wince. See APPROACH, SEEK. 2. To jerk backward, as a gun upon firing: rebound. See FORWARD.
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