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Another word for quail

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Verb

  1. To draw away involuntarily, usually out of fear or disgust

    See also:

    seek

    approach

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Another word for quail

Verb
  1. See also:

    wince

© WEBSTER’S NEW WORLD® ROGET’S A-Z THESAURUS by Charlton Laird and the editors of Webster’s New World dictionaries. Copyright © 1999 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Sentence Examples

  • A quail punctuated her statement with its crisp call.

  • Somewhere in the distance a Bob-White quail called.

  • The servants were a little discouraged, but soon they brought in a great tray containing two dozen nicely roasted quail on toast.

  • Grouse, quail, crows and woodpeckers (Melanerpes formicivorus) furnish species characteristic of the state.

  • The quail lays fifteen or twenty eggs and they are white.

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