Definition of Cringe

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Cringe

To draw one's self together as in fear or servility; to bend or crouch with base humility; to wince; hence; to make court in a degrading manner; to fawn.

To contract; to draw together; to cause to shrink or wrinkle; to distort.

Servile civility; fawning; a shrinking or bowing, as in fear or servility.

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Cringe Quotations

Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Five years from now I'm probably going to look back on the things I'm doing and cringe.
Fiona Apple

I don't really cringe over any of my albums.
Sheryl Crow

I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel?
Irwin Shaw

I have a hard time watching the shows now. It is like opening up a yearbook when you were in junior high. I think everybody looks back at their photos and cringe, and I get to experience it with everybody else in the world looking at mine.
Mark-Paul Gosselaar

Early on, I found the attention completely embarrassing. I'd cringe if I saw my picture on the cover of a magazine.
Julie Christie

I suppose I sometimes used to act like I wasn't a human being... Sometimes I look back at myself and remember things I used to say, or my hairstyle, and I cringe.
Madonna Ciccone

There's something about each of my books that I'm really proud of, and there's something about each of my books that I cringe over.
Margaret Haddix

Every genuine boy is a rebel and an anarch. If he were allowed to develop according to his own instincts, his own inclinations, society would undergo such a radical transformation as to make the adult revolutionary cower and cringe.
John Andrew Holmes

I can't stand to see myself act. It just makes me cringe.
Thomas Jane

Cringe Translations

cringe in German is kriechen
cringe in Spanish is encogerse
cringe in Swedish is svansa, krypa

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