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- verbcringe (verb) · cringes (third person present) · cringed (past tense) · cringed (past participle) · cringing (present participle)
- bend one's head and body in fear or in a servile manner:"he cringed away from the blow"
- have an inward feeling of acute embarrassment or awkwardness:"I cringed at his stupidity"
nouncringe (noun) · cringes (plural noun)- an act of cringing.
adjectivecringe (adjective) · cringer (comparative adjective) · cringest (superlative adjective)- informalcausing feelings of acute embarrassment or awkwardness:"learning about sex and sexuality can be seriously cringe" · "this whole situation is so cringe"
OriginMiddle English crenge, crenche, related to Old English cringan, crincan ‘bend, yield, fall in battle’, of Germanic origin and related to Dutch krengen ‘heel over’ and German krank ‘sick’, also to crank.Similar and Opposite Wordsverb- bend one's head and body in fear or in a servile manner:
- have an inward feeling of acute embarrassment or awkwardness:
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