Quailed is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for QUAILED in dictionary:

VERB:
• QUAIL, to give way in fear
• feel or show fear or apprehension
NOUN:
• a small short-tailed Old World game bird resembling a tiny partridge, typically having brown camouflaged plumage.
• a small or medium-sized New World game bird, the male of which has distinctive facial markings.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to cower

Words related to QUAILED

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Words that contain QUAILED

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How to use QUAILED in a sentence

• She saw the hot blood surge in a great wave to his forehead, and she quailed inwardly though outwardly she made no sign.
• Orazio affected total unconsciousness, but he quailed inwardly.
• But it was not easy! Oh, not at all easy! She quailed with a sense of her own weakness, so unexpected, so frightening.
• This beast could bear witness that Etienne Gerard had died as he had lived, and that one prisoner at least had not quailed before him.
• He looked at his wife and quailed a little at the thought that had suddenly come upon him.
• Spirit and flesh quailed before so difficult and rowdy an audience on so difficult and perilous a subject.
• But there were manly hearts behind those ragged garments, hearts that beat high with love of home and country, hearts that seldom quailed in the hour of peril.
• No one really doubted his innocence, not even Vitellius, who always quailed at a breath of suspicion.
• The expression of her face was so menacing that he quailed before it.
• Many quailed before the prospect of death, and purchased immunity from persecution by again repairing to the altars of idolatry.
• One of them in particular, who appeared to be the highest in rank, placed himself directly facing me, looking at me with a rigidity of aspect under which I absolutely quailed.
• He quailed momentarily at thought of what would happen to him if he were caught trying to locate that man and his plot.
• And you, Miss Maxwell, though you have never quailed for an instant, can hope to be in England in the spring.
• His face flushed and his eye quailed before my steady gaze, but he said nothing.
• The savage quailed before him, but afterwards came to him and stated that his objection was that the praying Indians did not pay him their tribute.
• For a moment, knowing all I knew, and particularly the responsibilities which lay before me, and the interests committed to my hands, I quailed, confessing myself unequal to him.
• Now here, now there, the shot it hailed In deadly drifts of fiery spray, Yet not a single soldier quailed When wounded comrades round them wailed Their dying shout at Monterey.
• From his place of ambush came he, Striding terrible among them, And so awful was his aspect That the bravest quailed with terror.
• Chunky quailed under the threatening gaze of Ned Rector.
• A cold, tired look would appear on his face if Keith tried to press a subject after such an answer, and before that look Keith quailed.
• The old Jew escorted him to the door, with his little keen gray eyes fixed upon him, and Vanslyperken quailed before it, and was glad when he was once more in the street.
• Great leaders have ever been noted for their eyes, before whose glance strong men have cowed and quailed, or eagerly coveted the privilege of service.
• The officials, who had long played falsely with a liberty-loving, yet loyal people, now fairly quailed before the whirlwind of their righteous indignation.
• At first the stout heart of Baron Elsner quailed at our suggestion.
• Again Sir Harry quailed at the notion of encountering Mrs.
• All fled before him, and the strongest warriors quailed beneath his glance.
• He absolutely quailed before the vehemence and fervour of the usually mild woman.
• With strong forts, heavy guns, many men, provisions, and ammunition, they quailed before the desperate valour of the pirates.
• Sophie saw, in the vision of a moment, on how wild and stormy a sea she had embarked, and for a moment, perhaps, she quailed at the sight.
• There was that in her presence and in her eye before which all commoner or weaker creatures quailed.
• The firm will never quailed, but the sturdy feet faltered.

Similar words containing QUAIL without suffix ed

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