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Meaning of 'cringe'
Meaning of 'cringe' (Webster Dictionary)
1. Cringe 
[ n.]
- Servile civility; fawning; a shrinking or bowing, as in
fear or servility. [ n.]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. [ v. t.]- To contract; to draw together; to cause to shrink or wrinkle; to distort.
Meaning of 'cringe' (Princeton's WordNet)
1. cringe [ v]
[ v]Meaning (1):
- draw back, as with fear or pain
- draw back, as with fear or pain
Example in sentence:
- she flinched when they showed the slaughtering of the calf
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