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React to an awkward moment
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cringe
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Word definitions for cringe in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cringe \Cringe\, n. Servile civility; fawning; a shrinking or bowing, as in fear or servility. ``With cringe and shrug, and bow obsequious.'' --Cowper.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADVERB when ▪ And the arms cringe when they touch human flesh. ▪ Nine times out of 10, a coach cringes when one of his players mouths off about an opponent. ■ VERB make ▪ It makes me cringe into the smelly upholstery of his ...
Usage examples of cringe.
Sea Wolf awoke at the touch, and cringed when he saw the monks standing over him.
But he would not go like a baseborn coward, cringing and pleading for mercy.
The big-fisted proprietor stepped into the room and Birdy Zelker cringed against the wall.
He did not send me here to fawn and cringe, And coax these boors into good humour.
Nucko-political bodies all the way up in Quebec, far north of the Enfield MA where Gately had been cringing his way to nightly AA meetings with his fingers in his mouth.
Irasmus waved his wand, and one of the gobbes scuttled forward, cringing, to bag and shoulder those tomes of stolen knowledge.
II Pale flakes with lingering stealth come feeling for our faces -- We cringe in holes, back on forgotten dreams, and stare, snow-dazed, Deep into grassier ditches.
He remembered dear Richard: the fear-bulged eyes, the crying, the whimpering, the begging as he cringed before the rakoshi and answered in detail every question Kusum put to him about his aunts and daughter in the United States.
They cringed from a pair of Mags who urged them along with curses and strokes from the barrels of their Copperheads.
Mary cringed every time she read a popular article that tried to explain why mitochondrial DNA is only inherited from the maternal line.
They address the Moors with a villainous, cringing look which makes the sons of Ishmael savage, for they know it is only feigned.
He cringed from the man and stared at Negri in utter horror and confusion.
Meredith puckered up her lips, cringing at the deep lines that radiated out from them, then screamed out loud as another face crowded into the mirror beside hers.
The thugs listened to their short-wave radios and cringed at the news: Pontypool, Wales.
The terrified face of General Rolando Rodriguez cringed from his darting hands.