recoil at the sight

recoil at the sight (of someone or something)

and recoil at the thought (of someone or something)

Fig. to flinch or cringe at the sight or thought of someone or something. Sally recoiled at the sight of Gerry, who had said something unspeakable. Mary recoiled at the very thought.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
DÁVid	-	Hungarian, Slovak
Kyung-Sook	gyung-sook	Korean
Hariwald	-	Ancient Germanic
Rohit	-	Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, Odia, Gujarati, Kannada, Telugu, Nepali
Elvina	el-VEEN-ə	English
Johannes	yo-HAH-nes (German), yo-HAHN-nəs (Dutch, Danish), YO-hahn-nes (Finnish)	German, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Estonian, Late Roman