Cringes is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.
You can make 184 anagrams from letters in cringes (ceginrs).
1175-1225; Middle English crengen, crenchen (transitive); Old English *crencean, crencgean, causative of cringan, crincan to yield, fall (in battle)
Bows and cringes of the newest mode were here exchanged, 'twixt friend and friend, with wonderful exactness.
He swears by the State and the army, and cringes before the power of money.
“When his name is in the paper, he cringes,” says a Hill veteran.
He may cringe and growl, or cringe and not growl; but he either beats or cringes.
I'll keep him and club him till he cringes and crawls at my feet.
I am someone who cringes when I hear a description of a sprained ankle.
He cringes at the thought of going on a talk show and does not particularly enjoy premiere walks along the red carpet.
The more the Afro-American yields and cringes and begs, the more he has to do so, the more he is insulted, outraged and lynched.
He was like a dog that has been too much beaten, and cringes even before it is struck.
"Either beats or cringes," said Wemmick, not at all addressing himself to me.
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