Word Meanings - WINCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

guinchier, and winchier, winchir, to give way, to turn aside, fr. OHG. wankjan, wenken, to give way, to waver, fr. winchan 1. To shrink, as from a blow, or from pain; to flinch; to start back. I will not stir, nor wince, nor speak a word. Shak.

Additional info about word: WINCE

guinchier, and winchier, winchir, to give way, to turn aside, fr. OHG. wankjan, wenken, to give way, to waver, fr. winchan 1. To shrink, as from a blow, or from pain; to flinch; to start back. I will not stir, nor wince, nor speak a word. Shak. 2. To kick or flounce when unsteady, or impatient at a rider; as, a horse winces.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of WINCE)

• Flinch
• Blench
• swerve
• wince
• recoil

Related words: (words related to WINCE)

• FLINCHER
  One who flinches or fails.
• RECOILMENT
  Recoil.
• SWERVE
  OFries. swerva to creep, D. zwerven to swerve, to rope, OS. swerban to wipe off, MHG. swerben to be whirled, OHG. swerban to wipe off, Icel. sverfa to file, Goth. swaírban to wipe, and perhaps 1. To stray; to wander; to rope. A maid thitherward
• WINCEY
  Linsey-woolsey.
• BLENCH
  deceive; akin to Icel. blekkja to impose upon. Prop. a causative of 1. To shrink; to start back; to draw back, from lack of courage or resolution; to flinch; to quail. Blench not at thy chosen lot. Bryant. This painful, heroic task he undertook,
• BLENCHER
  1. One who, or that which, scares another; specifically, a person stationed to prevent the escape of the deer, at a hunt. See Blancher. 2. One who blenches, flinches, or shrinks back.
• WINCER
  One who, or that which, winces, shrinks, or kicks.
• FLINCH
  To let the foot slip from a ball, when attempting to give a tight croquet. (more info) 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;
• RECOIL
  fundament. The English word was perhaps influenced in form by 1. To start, roll, bound, spring, or fall back; to take a reverse motion; to be driven or forced backward; to return. Evil on itself shall back recoil. Milton. The solemnity
• RECOILINGLY
  In the manner of a recoil.
• BLENCH HOLDING
  See HOLDING
• FLINCHINGLY
  In a flinching manner.
• WINCE
  guinchier, and winchier, winchir, to give way, to turn aside, fr. OHG. wankjan, wenken, to give way, to waver, fr. winchan 1. To shrink, as from a blow, or from pain; to flinch; to start back. I will not stir, nor wince, nor speak a word. Shak.
• RECOILER
  One who, or that which, recoils.
• BEDSWERVER
  One who swerves from and is unfaithful to the marriage vow. Shak.
• UNFLINCHING
  Not flinching or shrinking; unyielding. -- Un*flinch"ing*ly, adv.