Crossword-Solution: FLINCHED 8 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 17

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Flinched imp. & p. p. of Flinch

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Reacted to a sudden noise, say 1 answer
Shrank back 2 answers
Shrank in fear 3 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
EMZCAE
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with FLINCHED (5)

Yet, to my astonishment, the patient never flinched nor moved a muscle of his face, and on my inquiring afterwards, he assured me that the proceeding was absolutely painless, a remark which was corroborated by the surgeon.
The Stark Munro Letters J. Stark Munro 1995
You’ve a perfect right, and it would be perfectly straight of you.” Then he added in a different tone: “You’d have moreover, in the person of Madame de Vionnet, a very interesting relation prepared for her.” Their eyes, on this proposition, continued to meet, but Chad’s pleasant and bold, never flinched for a moment.
The Ambassadors Henry James 1996
His iron nature, which during five days had never flinched, had broken down; but it was not for himself he wept, but for his wife, his children, his brother; of his own fate he took no account.
A Book of Remarkable Criminals H. B. Irving 1996
Then as each article of the pack was thrown across her back, she flinched and uttered the most heart-rending groans.
The Mountains Stewart Edward White 1996
But she never flinched, though we may suppose that many of her poorest subjects, who could sleep from dark till daylight with nothing but a brick for a pillow, might have rested more peacefully than she.
Court Life in China Isaac Taylor Headland 1996

Quotes with FLINCHED (3)

I DON'T CARE!" Harry yelled at them, snatching up a lunascope and throwing it into the fireplace. "I'VE HAD ENOUGH, I'VE SEEN ENOUGH, I WANT OUT, I WANT IT TO END, I DON'T CARE ANYMORE!""You do care," said Dumbledore. He had not flinched or made a single move to stop Harry demolishing his office. His expression was calm, almost detached. "You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.
J. K. Rowling Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Back in medieval times, "I said, "we used oil of vitriol for its healing properties. No doubt that's why Commodus had some in his infirmary. Today we call it sulfuric acid." Meg flinched. "Isn't that dangerous?""Very.""And you *healed* with it?""It was the Middle Ages. We were crazy back then.
Rick Riordan The Dark Prophecy
Rigg laughed softly at Lisa’s deadpan joke, but she halted when she noticed the back of Lisa’s neck: the factory number had been shaved away, roughly and angrily. Frowning in confusion, Rigg gently rubbed her fingers over the scrape, and Lisa flinched as if it hurt.“If someone saw this, you could be scrapped,” Rigg said anxiously. “I know,” was the soft reply. “I believe freedom is worth that risk.
Ash Gray The Thieves of Nottica
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Appears in: LAT, Newsday, NYT.

Used 3 times in crossword archives (2012–2024).