Definitions for cringe

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Spelling: [krinj]
IPA: /krɪndʒ/

Cringe is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 91 anagrams from letters in cringe (ceginr).

Definitions for cringe

noun

  1. servile or fawning deference.

verb (used without object)

  1. to shrink, bend, or crouch, especially in fear or servility; cower.
  2. to fawn.

Origin of cringe

1175-1225; Middle English crengen, crenchen (transitive); Old English *crencean, crencgean, causative of cringan, crincan to yield, fall (in battle)

Examples for cringe

Maybe you managed not to cringe at his take on the Bard in Shakespeare in Love, making you a stronger person than most.

An expression of the deepest humility and cringe was on his battered countenance.

He appeared to cringe, mute, as if words had failed him through grief; then—bang!

To the Peggy Noonans among us who cringe when Obama talks “down”: This is a deeply informal country.

Finally, Cleese goose-steps out of the dining room as the hapless Germans cringe and sob.

They know no gratitude, and they would not cringe to the greatest Christian potentate.

But there are some soldiers of the Clinton Wars, comrades in arms with Farah and his ilk, who look back on those days and cringe.

They expect to cringe; if they are not compelled to do so, they are very likely to forget their place.

The captives were pale and seemed to cringe from the pale interrogation light.

We are meant to cringe at the sight of a photo of an all-black classroom and ask cynically where the white kids are.

Word Value for cringe
Scrable

9

Words with friends

12

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