1. Draw back, as with fear or pain
   "she flinched when they showed the slaughtering of the calf"
   - squinch, funk, cringe, shrink, wince, recoil, quail, blench

1. A reflex response to sudden pain
   - wince

Derived forms: flinched, flinches, flinching

Type of: jump, move, start, startle

Encyclopedia: Flinch

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