flinch
f linch
- n a reflex response to sudden pain
- v draw back, as with fear or pain
she flinched when they showed the slaughtering of the calf
- In the revolution led by Mandela to transform a model of racial division and oppression into an open democracy, he demonstrated that he didn't flinch from taking up arms, but his .
- It ain't easy being the metrosexual pinup boy, but Beckham doesn't flinch from the term.
- The movie camera can do anything the human eye can do except flinch; that faculty is left to the audience.