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

Matched Categories

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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How to use cringe in a sentence?

1. Joacim Hernandez:

   There are some things Joacim Hernandez says that you have to cringe.

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. Heather Thalwitzer:

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

4. Taylor Budowich:

   It seems like perpetual-failed-candidate Hillary Clinton’s basket of deplorables has run stale, not unlike herself, it’s pathetic, it’s divisive, and it is further cementing her legacy of cringe.

5. John Koenig:

   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.