Synonyms for cringe
krɪndʒcringe

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1. cringe

   Synonyms:
   crouch, bend, bow, fawn, grabble, grub

   Antonyms:
   face, confront, defy, dare

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1. 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, fawn

2. fawn, 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

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1. • Bend
   • Move

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1. cringeverb

   Synonyms:
   crouch, fawn, truckle, sneak, stoop, bend the knee

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1. cringeverb

   Synonyms:
   truckle, fawn, crouch

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1. List of paraphrases for "cringe":

   shudder, cry

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1. Brian Fallon:

   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.

2. Peter Farrelly:

   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.

3. Sherry Ross:

   If you think about your face, it’s a very sensitive skin region, your vagina is really no different. I cringe when people use the same soap in the shower to clean their underarms that they use for their vagina when they wouldn’t do that with their face.

4. Carlos Leon:

   I do n’t cringe.

5. Heather Thalwitzer:

   I’ll let him have the birthday cake, but I’ll cringe.