Defenition of the word cringe

• Defenition of the word cringe

  • show submission or fear
  • draw back, as with fear
  • draw back, as with fear or pain; "she flinched when they showed the slaughtering of the calf"
  • draw back, as with fear or pain

Synonyms for the word cringe

• • blush
  • cower
  • crawl
  • creep
  • fawn
  • flinch
  • funk
  • get embarrassed
  • grovel
  • quail
  • recoil
  • shrink
  • shy away
  • squinch
  • squirm
  • wince

Similar words in the cringe

• • cringe
  • cringed
  • cringes

Hyponyms for the word cringe

• • retract
  • shrink back

Hypernyms for the word cringe

• • bend
  • flex
  • move

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