1. flinch - Noun
2. flinch - Verb
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.
To let the foot slip from a ball, when attempting to give a tight croquet.
The act of flinching.
Source: Webster's dictionaryMy words like eyes that flinch from light, refuse And shut upon obscurity; my acts Cast to their opposites by impatient violence Break up the sequent path; they fly On a circumference to avoid the centre. Stephen Spender
We did not flinch but gave our lives to save Greece when her fate hung on a razor's edge. Simonides of Ceos
If you would not have a man flinch when the crisis comes, train him before it comes. Seneca
Though you thrust a knife at my eyes, I will not flinch. Lynn Flewelling
If you flinch from it, you give it power over you. Take it, and cut your brother's throat with it, and take back the honor of your blood. Cassandra Clare
But here, in the murk of conflagration, where scarcely a friend is left to know we, the survivors, do not flinch from anything, not from a single blow. Surely the reckoning will be made after the passing of this cloud. We are the people without tears, straighter than you ... more proud. Anna Akhmatova