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shrink back

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Verb1.shrink back - pull away from a source of disgust or fear
retract
cringe, flinch, funk, quail, recoil, wince, shrink, squinch - draw back, as with fear or pain; "she flinched when they showed the slaughtering of the calf"


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He got his satchel from the buggy and, opening it, took out two deadly looking revolvers that made the children shrink back in alarm just to look at.
Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz by Baum, L. Frank View in context
He saw the man's eyes catch fire, the muscles of his face twitch, he saw Ernestine shrink back, white with terror and the man followed her.
A Millionaire of Yesterday by Oppenheim, E. Phillips View in context
Tarzan barely had time to drop to the landing and shrink back into the shadows on the far side of the door.
The Return of Tarzan by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
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