Possible Clues:

• Someone who intimidates us, making us shrink back?
• Act weakly to have debts seized by creditor
• Crouch from fear
• Pull back from fear
• Crouch in terror
• Shrink one who intimidates?
• Cringe — or one to make you do so?
• Withdraw and be overdrawn in credit
• Cringe with fear
• After courageously observing at first, we run and cringe in fear