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What is another word for having cold feet?

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Verb
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Present participle for to feel or show fear or apprehension
quailing
flinching
cowering
cringing
recoiling
shrinking
blenching
faltering
starting
wavering
blanching
grovellingUK
grovelingUS
shying
squinching
wincing
backing away
drawing back
drooping
fainting
getting cold feet
pulling back
shying away
showing fear
taking fright
Verb
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Present participle for to anticipate with great apprehension or fear
dreading
fearing
apprehending
cringing
misdoubting
shuddering
trembling
shrinking from
cowering at
cringing from
quaking at
shuddering at
trembling at
worrying about
feeling apprehensive about
flinching from
having forebodings about
quailing from
anticipating with horror
cringing at the thought of
having cold feet about
shuddering to think about
trembling to think about
Adjective
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Easily anxious or frightened
timid
cowardly
scared
afraid
fearful
frightened
nervous
timorous
pusillanimous
quaking
weak-kneed
apprehensive
easily frightened
faint-hearted
gutless
lacking courage
mousy
shrinking
lily-livered
meek
anxious
chicken
cowering
craven
cringey
fainthearted
irresolute
jittery
mousey
panicky
pigeonhearted
pigeon-hearted
sissy
skittish
spineless
trembling
tremulous
unheroic
wimpish
wimpy
yellow
yellow-bellied
browbeaten
bullied
capricious
cowed
daunted
dismayed
feeble
gentle
hesitant
intimidated
Milquetoast
poor-spirited
recreant
shaky
soft
spiritless
submissive
tentative
unassured
unnerved
vacillating
wavering
weak
wet
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