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English to English noun
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a reflex response to sudden pain |  | source: wordnet30
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The act of flinching. | | source: webster1913 verb
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draw back, as with fear or pain | | Example: she flinched when they showed the slaughtering of the calf
source: wordnet30
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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. | | source: webster1913
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