cringe

Meaning of cringe

noun
  1. A posture or gesture of shrinking or recoiling.
    He glanced with a cringe at the mess on his desk.
  2. A servile obeisance.
  3. A crick.
  4. An embarrassing event or situation which causes an onlooker to cringe.
    There was so much cringe in that episode!
  5. Someone or something that is cringy.
    That video was full of cringe.
verb
  1. To shrink, cower, tense or recoil, as in fear, disgust or embarrassment.
    He cringed as the bird collided with the window.
  2. To bow or crouch in servility.
  3. To contract; to draw together; to cause to shrink or wrinkle; to distort.

Information about cringe

  • The plural form of cringe is: cringes.
  • Languages ​​in which cringe is used:

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Hyphenation of cringe

cringe

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 6 chars.
  • cringe is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

cringe synonyms

Meaning flinch:

flinch, squinch, funk, shrink, wince, recoil, quail

Meaning fawn:

fawn, crawl, creep, cower, grovel

Anagrams of cringe

cering

Words that rhyme with cringe

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