quailing 

  1. 動詞
quail現在分詞:
不及物動詞:
畏縮
膽怯
quailing at ...(事物):
對...畏縮
對...膽怯
quailing before ...(人事物):
在...面前畏縮
在...面前膽怯

    同義字詞
blench,cringe,flinch,recoil,shrink,squinch,wince
cower,cringe,grovel

例句

  1. I felt like Frankenstein, quailing before the monster I had created.
  2. It would seem that even senior officers were quailing , but go they did.
  3. We had left John last night at the club, and I wondered with a quailing sensation when he had got home.
  4. Melissa flushed vivid puce, threw him a look that would have had weaker men quailing , and stormed off.
  5. His heart quailing , his senses swooning in chill gulfs of terror, he emerged on the lofty summit above the shadowy town.