What is another word for cringe?
Synonyms for cringe
krɪndʒcringe
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flinch, squinch, funk, cringe, shrink, wince, recoil, quailverb
draw back, as with fear or pain
"she flinched when they showed the slaughtering of the calf"
Synonyms:
rebound, cower, bound, shrivel up, reverberate, quail, shrink, flinch, funk, shrivel, grovel, spring, ricochet, kick back, take a hop, wither, backfire, bounce, backlash, resile, reduce, wince, kick, recoil, squinch, creep, crawl, squint, contract, fawnfawn, crawl, creep, cringe, cower, grovelverb
show submission or fear
Synonyms:
cower, sneak, recoil, bootlick, fawn, quail, flinch, funk, crawl, grovel, huddle, wince, truckle, kowtow, kotow, pussyfoot, squinch, creep, mouse, suck up, toady, shrink
Dictionary of English Synonymes
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#1204 | contract | |
#1249 | spring | |
#2036 | reduce | |
#2382 | mouse | |
#3403 | bound | |
#5089 | kick | |
#5529 | cry | |
#6335 | bow | |
#6506 | bend | |
#8260 | funk | |
#9429 | rebound | |
#10952 | bounce | |
#13161 | shrink | |
#14216 | crawl | |
#16203 | sneak | |
#18621 | creep | |
#22190 | grub | |
#22782 | quail | |
#25905 | backlash | |
#26161 | crouch | |
#30821 | fawn | |
#31728 | recoil | |
#31924 | wince | |
#37290 | shudder | |
#43010 | cringe | |
#47072 | ricochet | |
#49409 | huddle | |
#49828 | wither | |
#52900 | backfire | |
#67091 | squint | |
#76457 | flinch | |
#102486 | cower | |
#113280 | reverberate | |
#116571 | grovel | |
#128894 | toady | |
#137114 | shrivel | |
#207328 | kowtow | |
#271278 | pussyfoot | |
#275633 | truckle |
How to use cringe in a sentence?
One day you’ll remember this moment, and it’ll mean something very different. Maybe you’ll cringe and laugh, or brim with pride, aching to return. Or notice some detail hidden in the scene, a future landmark making its first appearance or discreetly taking its final bow.
True. I was Peter Farrelly, i did this decades ago and I thought I was being funny and the truth is I'm embarrassed and it makes me cringe now. I'm deeply sorry.
I’ll let him have the birthday cake, but I’ll cringe.
I cringe, when a tariff even gets talked about, it makes both the buyers and the sellers jumpy. It's going to impact my bottom line, it's going to impact my business livelihood, and, to an extent, it becomes a mental outlook.
I thought it was very cringe-worthy on many levels. Elizabeth Warren doesn't need Bill de Blasio's advice on what's good for the progressive movement, i don't even think it's true, what he tried to say at the end of the tweet, that if the situation were reversed Bernie would have endorsed her already. I don't think that's true at all.
Translations for cringe
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- قرفصArabic
- свивам сеBulgarian
- ZurückschreckenGerman
- encoger, contraerseSpanish
- ریزشPersian
- säpsähtää, kavahtaa, säpsähdys, vavahdusFinnish
- reculerFrench
- चापलूसीHindi
- imbarazzanteItalian
- 縮み上がりますJapanese
- whakamaokoMāori
- in elkaar krimpenDutch
- содрогнуться, отпрянутьRussian
- பயந்துTamil
- ประจบประแจงThai
- yaltaklanmakTurkish
- cringeUrdu
- 畏縮Chinese
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