Synonyms for wince

verb

draw back, cower, cringe, flinch, quail, shrink back, make a wry face, grimace, blench, shy, start, back off*, chicken out*.

See wince in Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus II


verb

To draw away involuntarily, usually out of fear or disgust:

blench1, cringe, flinch, quail, recoil, shrink, shy1, start. See approach, seek
noun

An act of drawing back in an involuntary or instinctive fashion:

cringe, flinch, recoil, shrink. See approach, seek

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