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  • 31quail — Synonyms and related words: Cornish hen, avoid, blanch, blench, blink, boggle, broiler, caille, canard, caneton, capon, chapon, chicken, cower, cringe, crouch, damsel, demur, dindon, dodge, draw back, duck, duckling, evade, fade, faisan, fall… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 32wince — Synonyms and related words: ache, agonize, ail, anguish, avoid, avoidance, blanch, blench, blink, boggle, cower, cringe, demur, dodge, draw back, draw in, duck, evade, evasion, fade, fall back, fallback, falter, feel pain, feel the pangs, fight… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 33shy — I. adjective (shier or shyer; shiest or shyest) Etymology: Middle English schey, from Old English scēoh; akin to Old High German sciuhen to frighten off Date: before 12th century 1. easily frightened ; timid 2. disposed to avoid a person or thi …

    New Collegiate Dictionary

  • 34shy — shy1 shyer, n. shyly, adv. shyness, n. /shuy/, adj., shyer or shier, shyest or shiest, v …

    Universalium

  • 35avoid — Synonyms and related words: abstain, abstain from, avert, be stuck up, bilk, blench, blink, circumvent, cringe, debar, deflect, divert, do without, dodge, double, draw back, duck, elude, escape, eschew, evade, exclude, fade, fall back, fight shy… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 36cringe — Synonyms and related words: apple polish, avoid, bend, bend the knee, bend the neck, bend to, blench, blink, bootlick, bow, bow and scrape, bow down, bow to, brown nose, cower, crawl, creep, cringe to, croodle, crouch, crouch before, curtsy,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 37draw back — Synonyms and related words: avoid, back down, back out, beat a retreat, blench, blink, cringe, discount, disengage, dodge, draw in, draw off, duck, evade, fade, fall back, flinch, funk, give ground, give place, go back, hang back, jib, knock off …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 38evade — Synonyms and related words: abstain, around the bush, avoid, back and fill, bail out, beat about, beg, beg the question, bicker, bilk, blench, blink, boggle, break away, break jail, break loose, bypass, cavil, cheat, choplogic, circumvent, cop… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 39fade — Synonyms and related words: abate, achromatize, age, ante, ante up, antiquate, arid, attenuate, avoid, back, back number, banal, barren, be annihilated, be consumed, be destroyed, be gone, be no more, be wiped out, become extinct, become obsolete …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 40fall back — Synonyms and related words: avoid, back, back down, back out, back up, backslide, beat a retreat, blench, blink, come after, come last, cringe, degenerate, deteriorate, disengage, disimprove, dodge, draw back, draw off, duck, evade, fade, fall,… …

    Moby Thesaurus