| 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: flinch, recoil, shrink, wince. See APPROACH, SEEK. | | VERB: | 1. To support slavishly every opinion or suggestion of a superior: bootlick, fawn, grovel, kowtow, slaver, toady, truckle. Informal : apple-polish, brownnose, cotton. Slang : suck up. Idioms: curry favor, dance attendance, kiss someone's feet, lick someone's boots. See OVER. 2. To draw away involuntarily, usually out of fear or disgust: blench1, flinch, quail, recoil, shrink, shy1, start, wince. See APPROACH, SEEK.
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