verb [V]
1 to move back and/or away from sb because you are afraid
SYNCOWER:
a child cringing in terror
2 to feel very embarrassed and uncomfortable about sth:
I cringe when I think of the poems I wrote then. * She felt herself cringe with embarrassment at the memory.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for cringe is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
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