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Plural of flinch

regular plural

The plural of flinch is flinches.

Forms of flinch

Singularflinch /ˈflɪnt͡ʃ/
Pluralflinches
Countablecountable

Flinches in a sentence

  • But Warner still flinches at being called a poet, because she detects in the term an insinuation that her sensibility is too literary to be unimpeachably hip-hop.2023 August 20, Kelefa Sanneh, “Noname’s Ambivalent, Triumphant Comeback”, in The New Yorker, →ISSN. From the entry unimpeachably

Meaning of flinch

  1. noun A reflexive jerking away.
  2. noun The slipping of the foot from a ball, when attempting to give a tight croquet.
  3. verb To make a sudden, involuntary movement in response to a (usually negative) stimulus; to cringe; to blench.

Full definition of flinch

Questions about the plural of flinch

What is the plural of flinch?
The plural of flinch is flinches.
Is flinch countable?
Flinch is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: flinch (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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