Usually means: Shrank back in fear, intimidated.
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  1. quailed: Merriam-Webster
  2. quailed: Collins English Dictionary
  3. quailed: Vocabulary.com
  4. quailed: Wordnik
  5. quailed: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. quailed: Wiktionary
  7. quailed: Dictionary.com
  8. quailed: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. quailed: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. quailed: Medical dictionary

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  1. Quailed: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Quail)

verb:  (intransitive) To waste away; to fade, to wither.
verb:  (transitive, now rare) To daunt or frighten (someone).
verb:  (intransitive) To lose heart or courage; to be daunted or fearful.
verb:  (intransitive) Of courage, faith, etc.: to slacken, to give way.
noun:  Any of various small game birds of the genera Coturnix, Anurophasis or Perdicula in the Old World family Phasianidae or of the New World family Odontophoridae.
noun:  (uncountable) The meat from this bird eaten as food.
noun:  (obsolete) A prostitute.
verb:  (obsolete) To curdle or coagulate, as milk does.
noun:  A surname from Scottish Gaelic.
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