Crossword-Solution: QUAILED 7 letters, 6 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 17

We have 6 clues for the answer “QUAILED”

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Lost heart. 1 answer
Drew back in fear 2 answers
Shied away 2 answers
Shrank in fear 3 answers
Flinched 7 answers
Showed fear 9 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
MECZEA
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with QUAILED (5)

From his place of ambush came he, Striding terrible among them, And so awful was his aspect That the bravest quailed with terror.
The Song Of Hiawatha Henry W. Longfellow 1991
However, ’tisn’t much odds to us about that now, for ’tis all over.” “Have you heard a different story at all?” She looked at him so intently that Joseph’s eyes quailed.
Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992
Utterson had already quailed at the name of Hyde; but when the stick was laid before him, he could doubt no longer; broken and battered as it was, he recognised it for one that he had himself presented many years before to Henry Jekyll.
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson 1992
But as Terkoz pushed her roughly aside to meet Tarzan’s charge, and she saw the great proportions of the ape and the mighty muscles and the fierce fangs, her heart quailed.
Tarzan of the Apes Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993
Her glance quailed not, her cheek blanched not, for the fear of a fate so instant and so horrible; on the contrary, the thought that she had her fate at her command, and could escape at will from infamy to death, gave a yet deeper colour of carnation to her complexion, and a yet more brilliant fire to her eye.
Ivanhoe Walter Scott 1993

Quotes with QUAILED (3)

My letters! all dead paper, mute and white! And yet they seem alive and quivering Against my tremulous hands which loose the string And let them drop down on my knee to-night. This said, -- he wished to have me in his sight Once, as a friend: this fixed a day in spring To come and touch my hand ... a simple thing, Yet I wept for it! -- this, ... the paper's light ... Said, Dear I love thee; and I sank and quailed As if God's future thundered on my past. This said, I am thine …
Elizabeth Barrett Browning Sonnets from the Portuguese
For a while, my self-control and my power of reason quailed to uselessness.
Kaoru Kurimoto The Battle of Nospherus
Do you mean to tell me’, he growled a the Dursleys, ‘that this boy- this boy! - knows nothin’ abou’ - about ANYTHING?’Harry thought this was going a bit far. He had been to school, after all, and his marks were’nt bad.’I know some things,’ he said. ’ I can, you know, do maths and stuff.’But Hagrid simply waved his hand and said, ‘About our world, I mean. Your world. My world. Yer’ parents world.’ ‘What world?’Hagrid looked at though he was about to explode.‘DURSLEY!’ he boome…
J. K. Rowling Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
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Appears in: Newsday, NYT, Universal.

Used 3 times in crossword archives (1962–2018).