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cringe English

Meaning cringe meaning

What does cringe mean?

cringe

— verb (= flinch) draw back, as with fear or pain she flinched when they showed the slaughtering of the calf — verb (= fawn) show submission or fear

Synonyms cringe synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as cringe?

cringe English » English

cower shrink flinch fawn recoil wince grovel creep crouch crawl shrink back quail truckle toady squinch sink shudder perish funk flatter fall yield wrinkle withdraw wimple tremble suck up squat soft soap sneak shrivel shrink from rumple ruck retrograde retreat retract retire recede pull out pull back pull away pucker move back make up lackey kowtow kotow knit humble oneself

Topics cringe topics

What do people use cringe to talk about?
Language and thought Emotion Feel bad Sorry

Ashamed
Language and thought Emotion Feel bad

Afraid

Conjugation cringe conjugation

How do you conjugate cringe?

cringe · verb

Examples cringe examples

How do I use cringe in a sentence?

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They're working on our spirits, trying to make us cringe and crawl, working on our decency.
There were things I had to do in that courtroom that made me cringe.
Why do I cringe, Ratcliffe?
A flock of lowly sheep. who cringe and dare not raise their heads.
The odds against it would make even the most reckless gambler cringe.
You'd cringe like a dog.
Miss Cringe?
All that puppy knew how to do was cower, cringe away from you, expecting to be hit.
If it were human, an animal would cringe at its vices.
Because he makes my life one big, humiliating, cringe-making, guilt-ridden hell!
I, too, Bold Navigator, cringe my dribblies at your resplendent pofflesnood.
You'll travel light years, dodge asteroid storms, brave hostile aliens, and yet when asked to assume a parental role, you cringe.
I hear myself saying it, and I want to cringe.
You cringe in front of him like a worm.
Then we could walk down the street together And I wouldn't mind feeling him cringe-Never let on.
I'm gonna watch you cringe.
I thought I saw the house cringe as we drove up.
If Horace Blatt is in the clear and Kenneth Marshall is in the clear and I'm. I'm in the clear, and Patrick Redfern is in the clear and Myra Gardener because she was with him. Then it's all down to little Miss Cringe, isn't it?
You think that just because I don't tell you I love you I don't wanna spend any time with you and your voice often makes me cringe that I want another woman?
Frankly. I cringe, Mr. Mayor.
No, Hewe, just cringe like a dog under Einon's boot.
You must just look back on that and cringe. Shh!
They're working on our spirits trying to make us cringe and crawl, working on our decency.
Why do you cringe before them like a dog?
But it is not mine to cringe under piracy without striking a blow.
They cringe 'fore him like wild dogs Or hide in terror of the man.
Then it's all down to little Ms. Cringe? - Ms. Cringe?
Still, the fear makes my stomach cringe.
And I don't cringe.
Let's do something that'll make my parents cringe.

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