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FLINCH, v.i. [I have not found this word in any other language; but the sense of it occurs in blench, and not improbably it is from the same root, with a different prefix.]

1. To shrink; to withdraw from any suffering or undertaking, from pain or danger; to fail of proceeding, or of performing any thing. Never flinch from duty. One of the parties flinched from the combat.

A child, by a constant course of kindness, may be accustomed to bear very rough usage without flinching or complaining.

2. To fail.
1913 Definition
Flinch (flinch)
v. i.(?)
Flinch
[imp. *** p. p. Flinched (?)] p. pr. *** vb. n. Flinching.] [Prob. fr. OE. flecchen to waver, give way, F. flé]chir, fr. L. flectere to bend; but prob. influenced by
  1. 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.

    A child, by a constant course of kindness, may be accustomed to bear very rough usage without flinching or complaining. Locke.

  2. To let the foot slip from a ball, when attempting to give a tight croquet.
  3. The act of flinching.

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