трепване noun (reflexive jerking away)
дръпвам се verb (to make a sudden, involuntary movement in response to a stimulus)
трепвам verb (to make a sudden, involuntary movement in response to a stimulus)

Czech

4 entries

cuknutí noun (reflexive jerking away)
ucuknutí noun (reflexive jerking away)
škubnutí noun (reflexive jerking away)
couvnout verb (to avoid doing something momentarily)

Dutch

2 entries

terugdeinzen noun (reflexive jerking away)
terugdeinzen verb (to make a sudden, involuntary movement in response to a stimulus)

Esperanto

1 entries

eksalti verb (to make a sudden, involuntary movement in response to a stimulus)

Finnish

3 entries

säpsähdys noun (reflexive jerking away)
kavahtaa verb (to make a sudden, involuntary movement in response to a stimulus)
säpsähtää verb (to make a sudden, involuntary movement in response to a stimulus)

French

2 entries

broncher verb (to make a sudden, involuntary movement in response to a stimulus)
sursauter verb (to make a sudden, involuntary movement in response to a stimulus)

Galician

4 entries

arreguizo noun (reflexive jerking away)
arrepío noun (reflexive jerking away)
estremecemento noun (reflexive jerking away)
arreguizarse verb (to make a sudden, involuntary movement in response to a stimulus)

German

4 entries

Zucken noun (reflexive jerking away)
Zurückschrecken noun (reflexive jerking away)
Zurückzucken noun (reflexive jerking away)
Zusammenfahren noun (reflexive jerking away)

Greek

1 entries

αναπηδώ verb (to make a sudden, involuntary movement in response to a stimulus)

Irish

3 entries

creathnaigh verb (to make a sudden, involuntary movement in response to a stimulus)
cúlaigh verb (to make a sudden, involuntary movement in response to a stimulus)
loic verb (to make a sudden, involuntary movement in response to a stimulus)

Italian

1 entries

sussultare verb (to make a sudden, involuntary movement in response to a stimulus)

Japanese

1 entries

怯む verb (to make a sudden, involuntary movement in response to a stimulus)

Middle English

1 entries

schrynken verb (to make a sudden, involuntary movement in response to a stimulus)

Māori

4 entries

koemi verb (to make a sudden, involuntary movement in response to a stimulus)
kōrapa verb (to make a sudden, involuntary movement in response to a stimulus)
kōrapa verb (to avoid doing something momentarily)
maopo verb (to make a sudden, involuntary movement in response to a stimulus)

Ottoman Turkish

1 entries

پوصمق verb (to make a sudden, involuntary movement in response to a stimulus)

Polish

2 entries

wzdrygać się verb (to make a sudden, involuntary movement in response to a stimulus)
wzdrygnąć się verb (to make a sudden, involuntary movement in response to a stimulus)

Portuguese

1 entries

estremecer verb (to make a sudden, involuntary movement in response to a stimulus)

Russian

4 entries

вздра́гивание noun (reflexive jerking away)
отдёргивание noun (reflexive jerking away)
вздра́гивать verb (to make a sudden, involuntary movement in response to a stimulus)
вздро́гнуть verb (to make a sudden, involuntary movement in response to a stimulus)

Serbo-Croatian

3 entries

cimnuti verb (to make a sudden, involuntary movement in response to a stimulus)
lecnuti verb (to make a sudden, involuntary movement in response to a stimulus)
trznuti verb (to make a sudden, involuntary movement in response to a stimulus)

Slovak

4 entries

cuknutie noun (reflexive jerking away)
myknutie noun (reflexive jerking away)
trhnutie noun (reflexive jerking away)
šklbnutie noun (reflexive jerking away)

Slovene

1 entries

trzniti verb (to make a sudden, involuntary movement in response to a stimulus)

Spanish

4 entries

achicarse verb (to make a sudden, involuntary movement in response to a stimulus)
enarcarse verb (to make a sudden, involuntary movement in response to a stimulus)
encogerse verb (to make a sudden, involuntary movement in response to a stimulus)
estremecerse verb (to make a sudden, involuntary movement in response to a stimulus)

Swedish

1 entries

rycka till verb (to make a sudden, involuntary movement in response to a stimulus)

Ukrainian

1 entries

здригну́тися verb (to make a sudden, involuntary movement in response to a stimulus)

Sample sentences

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He is not such a man as to flinch from danger.

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Tom didn't flinch.

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Tom didn't even flinch.

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This made me flinch.

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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.