| Main Entry: | wince |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | draw back |
Synonyms: |
back off, blanch, blench, cower, cringe, dodge, duck, flinch, grimace, jib, make a face, quail, recoil, shrink, shy, start, swerve, turn |
| Main Entry: | agonize |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | suffer or cause another to suffer |
Synonyms: |
afflict, bleed, carry on, crucify, distress, disturb, eat heart out, excruciate, harrow, hurt, labor, lament, martyr, pain, rack, sing the blues, squirm, stew over, strain, strive, struggle, take it badly, torment, torture, try, wince, worry, writhe |
Antonyms: |
not worry |
| Main Entry: | blanch |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | become afraid |
Synonyms: |
flinch, pale, recoil, shrink, start, wince |
Antonyms: |
be brave |
| Main Entry: | cower |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | hide, hover in fear |
Synonyms: |
apple-polish, blench, bootlick, brownnose, cringe, crouch, draw back, fawn, flinch, grovel, honey*, kowtow, quail, recoil, shrink, skulk, sneak, toady, tremble, truckle, wince |
Antonyms: |
come out |
| Main Entry: | cringe |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | flinch, recoil from danger |
Synonyms: |
blench, cower, crawl, crouch, dodge, draw back, duck, eat dirt, grovel, kneel, quail, quiver, shrink, shy, start, stoop, tremble, wince |
Antonyms: |
come forward |
| Main Entry: | crouch |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | stoop low; cringe |
Synonyms: |
bend, bend down, bow, cower, dip, duck, grovel, huddle, hunch, hunker down, kneel, quail, quat, scrooch down, squat, stoop, wince |
Antonyms: |
stretch |
| Main Entry: | deform |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | distort, disfigure |
Synonyms: |
batter, blemish, buckle, contort, cripple, damage, deface, flaw, gnarl, grimace, impair, injure, knot, maim, malform, mangle, mar, misshape, mutilate, ruin, skew, spoil, twist, warp, wince |
Antonyms: |
beautify, improve |
| Main Entry: | jump |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | recoil |
Synonyms: |
bob, bolt, bounce, carom, flinch, jerk, jounce, rebound, ricochet, spring, start, startle, wince |
| Main Entry: | quail |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cower, shrink |
Synonyms: |
blanch, blench, cringe, droop, faint, falter, flinch, have cold feet, quake, recoil, shake, shudder, start, tremble, wince |
Antonyms: |
face, meet |
| Main Entry: | recoil |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | shrink away |
Synonyms: |
backfire, balk, blanch, blench, blink, carom, cringe, demur, dodge, draw back, duck, falter, flinch, hesitate, jerk, kick, pull back, quail, quake, react, rebound, reel, resile, shake, shirk, shrink, shudder, shy away, spring, start, step back, stick, stickle, swerve, tremble, turn away, waver, wince, withdraw |
Antonyms: |
face, meet |