English Dictionary

cringe

/kɹɪnd͡ʒ/

verb

(intransitive) To cower, flinch, recoil, shrink, or tense, as in disgust, embarrassment, or fear.

I cringe every time I hear that song.

意味（1）

(intransitive) To cower, flinch, recoil, shrink, or tense, as in disgust, embarrassment, or fear.

He cringed as the bird collided with the window.

意味（2）

(intransitive, figuratively) To experience an inward feeling of disgust, embarrassment, or fear; (by extension) to feel very embarrassed.

意味（3）

(intransitive) To bow or crouch in servility.

[I]f they keepe their wits, yet they are accompted fooles by reaſon of their carriage, becauſe they cannot ride a horſe, which euery Clowne can doe; ſalute and court a Gentlewoman, carue at table, cringe and make congies, which euery common ſwaſher can doe, …

意味（4）

(intransitive, figuratively) To act in an obsequious or servile manner.

Here the beggar accoſts me; had I appeared as himſelf, he had aſked nothing: but now he uncovers, he cringeth, he cries for relief.

意味（5）

(transitive, obsolete) To draw (a body part) close to the body; also, to distort or wrinkle (the face, etc.).

[H]ow thriue you, howe periſh you, and they cringing in their neckes, like rattes, ſmothered in the holde, …

意味（6）

(transitive, obsolete) To bow or crouch to (someone) in servility; to escort (someone) in a cringing manner.