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. Chris Seelbach:

   As much as I love the Senate team, the description of their ‘Bruce Jenner’ hot dog of the day made me cringe a little.

2. Dale Stevermer:

   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.

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. Joacim Hernandez:

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

5. Carlos Leon:

   I do n’t cringe.