quail
verb/kweɪl/
/kweɪl/
[intransitive] (literary)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they quail | /kweɪl/ /kweɪl/ |
| he / she / it quails | /kweɪlz/ /kweɪlz/ |
| past simple quailed | /kweɪld/ /kweɪld/ |
| past participle quailed | /kweɪld/ /kweɪld/ |
| -ing form quailing | /ˈkweɪlɪŋ/ /ˈkweɪlɪŋ/ |
- quail (at/before somebody/something) to feel frightened or to show that you are frightenedTopics Feelingsc2Word Originverb late Middle English (in the sense ‘waste away, come to nothing’): of unknown origin.
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