cringing

/krinj/US // krɪndʒ //UK // (krɪndʒ) //

畏缩不前,畏畏缩缩,畏缩,趑趄不前

Definitions

v.无主动词 verb

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cringed, cring·ing.
- : to shrink back, bend, or crouch, especially in fear, pain, or servility; cower: She cringed in a corner and started praying. They cringed and bowed before the king.
- : to feel very embarrassed or awkward; react with discomfort: Some of us cringed at the speaker’s tactless comments.
- : to seek favor by acting in a servile way; fawn: He has never cringed to anyone—in fact, he can sometimes be a bully.

n.名词 noun

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- : an act or instance of shrinking back, bending, or crouching: The gunshots elicited a cringe of terror.
- : an instance of being very embarrassed, awkward, or uncomfortable: Some of his outfits are bizarre enough to induce a cringe or two.
- : servile or fawning deference.

adj.servile

Synonyms

Cringe is best understood as a cousin of camp, though cringe differs from camp in that camp can still be enjoyable on its own terms.
It's from a combination of excessive cringing and sustained weeping.
The new muskel-Juden replaces the weak, cringing land-less Jew.
But cheering for the message of self-empowerment quickly shifted to cringing.
In memory, he was reviled as a servile race traitor, a cringing sycophant to white wealth and power.
You could almost hear Kagan, Breyer and Ginsburg cringing every time she spoke.
But when he had finished, Sivert Jespersen, with a cringing smile, said: "I think now we had better sing a hymn."
A little cringing shrivelled old man stood up in astonishment.
If the partners despised us for our cringing before them they were right; we were a despicable set.
He stopped and looked back at the people cringing in the doorways.
In those false, fascinating pages he is a consummate scoundrel, "a mere cringing courtier and a pimp."