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Meaning of 'cringe' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Cringe [ n.]
- Servile civility; fawning; a shrinking or bowing, as in fear or servility.
2 . Cringe [ v. t.]
- To draw one's self together as in fear or servility; to bend or crouch with base humility; to wince; hence; to make court in a degrading manner; to fawn.
- To contract; to draw together; to cause to shrink or wrinkle; to distort.

Meaning of 'cringe' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . cringe [ v]
Meaning (1):
- draw back, as with fear or pain
Example in sentence:
  • she flinched when they showed the slaughtering of the calf

Nearby Words:

crib crib-biter crib-biting cribbage cribbed cribbing cribble cribbled cribbling cribellum

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