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verb (used without object)
1.
to shrink, bend, or crouch, especially in fear or servility; cower.
2.
to fawn.
noun
3.
servile or fawning deference.
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Cringed
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Origin:
1175–1225; Middle English crengen, crenchen (transitive); Old English *crencean, crencgean, causative of cringan, crincan to yield, fall (in battle)
1175–1225; Middle English crengen, crenchen (transitive); Old English *crencean, crencgean, causative of cringan, crincan to yield, fall (in battle)
Related forms
cring·er, noun
cring·ing·ly, adverb
cring·ing·ness, noun
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Example Sentences
- Many in the industry understandably cringed at the notion of ham-handed regulation being quickly adopted in response.
- We watched the tapes, and cringed thinking everyone would die.
- In one case, an orangutan cringed and pulled away as its companion extracted a fish from a pond.
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Word Origin & History
cringe
early 13c., from causative of O.E. cringan "give way, fall (in battle), become bent," from P.Gmc. *krank- "bend, curl up."
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