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cringing   (TTS Sound)

The verb cringe has 2 senses

• flinch, squinch, funk, cringe, shrink, wince, recoil, quail -- (draw back, as with fear or pain; "she flinched when they showed the slaughtering of the calf")


• fawn, crawl, creep, cringe, cower, grovel -- (show submission or fear)

The adj cringing has 1 sense

• cringing, groveling, grovelling, wormlike, wormy -- (totally submissive)