Flinch vs Quake - What's the difference?
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A reflexive jerking away.
To make a sudden, involuntary movement in response to a (usually negative) stimulus.
* John Locke
To dodge (a question), to avoid an unpleasant task or duty
To let the foot slip from a ball, when attempting to give a tight croquet.
A trembling]] or [[shake, shaking.
An earthquake, a trembling of the ground with force.
(lb) To tremble or shake.
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*Sir (Philip Sidney) (1554-1586)
*:She stood quaking like the partridge on which the hawk is ready to seize.
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*:Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.
To cause to tremble or shake.
:(Shakespeare)
As nouns the difference between flinch and quake
is that flinch is a reflexive jerking away while quake is a trembling or shaking.As verbs the difference between flinch and quake
is that flinch is to make a sudden, involuntary movement in response to a (usually negative) stimulus while quake is to tremble or shake.flinch
English
Noun
(es)- My eye doctor hates the flinch I have every time he tries to get near my eyes.
Verb
- A child, by a constant course of kindness, may be accustomed to bear very rough usage without flinching or complaining.
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quake
English
Noun
(en noun)- We felt a quake in the apartment every time the train went by .
- California is plagued by quakes ; there are a few minor ones almost every month .