Usually means: Recoiled quickly from pain, fear.
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  1. flinched: Merriam-Webster
  2. flinched: Collins English Dictionary
  3. flinched: Vocabulary.com
  4. flinched: Wordnik
  5. flinched: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. flinched: Wiktionary
  7. Flinched, flinched: Dictionary.com
  8. flinched: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Flinched: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Flinched: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. flinched: FreeDictionary.org
  12. flinched: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (flinch)

noun:  A reflexive jerking away.
noun:  (croquet) The slipping of the foot from a ball, when attempting to give a tight croquet.
verb:  (intransitive) To make a sudden, involuntary movement in response to a (usually negative) stimulus; to cringe.
verb:  To dodge (a question), to avoid an unpleasant task or duty
verb:  (croquet) To let the foot slip from a ball, when attempting to give a tight croquet.
verb:  Alternative form of flense [To strip the blubber or skin from, as from a whale, seal, etc.]
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