To flinch is to move one's head to avoid a threatened or imagined blow.
yes she flinched as he raised him hand to touch her.
Military men who never flinched at the roar of rifles now shook at the prospect of facing the press.
Recoil.
The girl flinched when the nurse gave her a shot.
The word closest in meaning to "tensed the body flinched" is "tensed." This term conveys a state of muscular contraction or readiness, often in response to a stimulus. "Flinched" suggests a quick involuntary reaction to fear or surprise, reinforcing the idea of tension in the body.
When he said the house flinched in "Maniac Magee," it is a metaphorical way of describing the reaction of the house to an explosion or sudden loud noise. It suggests that the house reacted quickly and visibly to the disturbance, as if it had briefly recoiled or moved in response.
ing is the suffix of flinching
when your eyes blink and they flicker on and off like a light bulb, you usually flinch when someone try's to punch you or through something at you.
The dentist removed my tooth effortlessly and painlessly.Painlessly, a child's tooth often falls out on its own.Mom removed the splinter, painlessly, but I still flinched.
He was indelibly marked by the time he spent in the prison camp and even years later still flinched at the sound of a door slamming shut.
I bet he is. Mostly on the soles of his barefeet. he must be really ticklish if you lighly touch and play on his barefeet when he has no socks on. However, I am ot so sure. i think he is...hes was performing in the macys Thanksgiving parade with the cast of how to succeed in business and one of the dancers grabbed his side and he flinched!
She could really have a bug in their i would take her to the vet asap