flinch

to flinch from your duty

she flinched at the acidity in his voice.

‘Don't call me that,’ he said with a flinch.

I flinched, but only in play .

he had faced death without flinching .

I rarely flinch from a fight when I'm sure of myself.

she flinched as a machine gun stuttered nearby.

She won’t flinch from speaking her mind.

Jones didn't flinch once when the nurse cleaned the cut in his leg.

The guests were frightened to flinch when the dog was barking at them in front of the fence door.