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quail /kweɪl/ noun [uncountable and countable]
quail verb [intransitive]
(جانور شناسی). بلدرچین، شانه خالی کردن، از میدان دررفتن، ترسیدن، مردن، پژمرده شدن، لرزیدن، نظامی: نوعی موشک فریبنده که برای کور کردن رادارها و یا سیستم پدافند هوایی دشمن از هواپیما پرتاب می شود
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Synonyms & Related Wordsquail[verb]Synonyms: shrink, blanch, blench, cower, cringe, falter, flinch, have cold feet
(informal), recoil, shudder
Related Words: cower,
cringe [TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲
English DictionaryI. quail1 /kweɪl/
noun [uncountable and countable][
Date: 1300-1400;
Language: Old French;
Origin: quaille, from Medieval Latin quaccula]
a small fat bird with a short tail that is hunted for food or sport, or the meat from this bird
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II. quail2 verb [intransitive][
Date: 1400-1500;
Origin: quail 'to curdle' (15-19 centuries), from Latin coagulare; ⇒ coagulate]
literary to be afraid and show it by shaking a little bit or moving back slightly
Synonym : shrinkquail at
She quailed visibly at the sight of the prison walls. [TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲