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Funk, Casimir Funk, blue funk, flinch, squinch, cringe, shrink, wince, recoil, quail Definition: United States biochemist (born in Poland) who showed that several diseases were caused by dietary deficiencies and who coined the term `vitamin'' for the chemicals involved (1884-1967);a state of nervous depression; "he was in a funk";draw back, as with fear or pain; "she flinched when they showed the slaughtering of the calf";
Hyponyms: shrink back, retract Derivational Morphology:
wince, flinch
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