quail at

1. 1.

   anticipate with dread or anxiety

   Synonymsapprehend

   Broaderanticipate

Questions about quail at

What does quail at mean?

quail at means "anticipate with dread or anxiety".

What is another word for quail at?

Close synonyms include apprehend. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is quail at a common word?

quail at is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.