QUAIL


Meaning of QUAIL in English

(SHOW FEAR) [verb] [I] [literary] - to feel or show fear; to want to able to move away from something because you fear itI was quailing with fear as I opened the envelope containing my exam results.Charlie quailed at the sound of his mother's angry voice.She quailed before her boss's anger.

Cambridge English vocab.      Кембриджский английский словарь.