intransitive. To move restlessly, bustle, fidget: figurative to be fussy or restless, vex oneself. Also, to flinch, shrink. to fike and fling: to…

intransitive. To start back or away, recoil, flinch; to wince.

intransitive to shrink back.

To draw back or give way so as to avoid physical contact or conflict; to recoil through physical weakness or lack of courage or with abhorrence from.

intransitive. To move suddenly and quickly; to flinch or wince. Obsolete.

intransitive. To shrink, start back, give way. archaic. (Later users apparently mix it up with blanch, v.1 6, in sense of ‘turn pale, change colour…

intransitive. To shrink back or away, cower; occasionally const. infinitive, to hesitate to do something. Obsolete.

to shrink in the neck: to flinch, recoil.

intransitive. To shrink, wince.

? To wince, flinch, shirk (after French bouger).

intransitive. To take a sudden fright or aversion; to make a difficulty, ‘boggle’ about doing something; to recoil, shrink. Const. at, from: rarely to…

With away, up: To shrink from.

To shrink under pain; to wince.

To start or make an involuntary shrinking movement in consequence of or in order to avoid pain, or when alarmed or suddenly affected.