cringe

cringe is a 6-letter English word with 5 senses as transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 12 · 5 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. 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.
2. transitive verb. To contract; to draw together; to cause to shrink or wrinkle; to distort.
3. noun. Servile civility; fawning; a shrinking or bowing, as in fear or servility.
4. verb. draw back, as with fear or pain

   "she flinched when they showed the slaughtering of the calf"

   Synonyms: flinch, funk, quail, recoil, shrink, squinch, wince

5. verb. show submission or fear

   Synonyms: cower, crawl, creep, fawn, grovel

Synonyms

flinch, funk, quail, recoil, shrink, squinch, wince, cower, crawl, creep, fawn, grovel

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in cringe:

cering

Common word forms

cringed, cringer, cringes, cringest, cringing

Words from these letters

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