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— English words —

• cringe v. (Intransitive) To cower, flinch, recoil, shrink, or tense, as in disgust, embarrassment, or fear.
• cringe v. (Intransitive, figuratively) To experience an inward feeling of disgust, embarrassment, or fear; (by…
• cringe v. (Intransitive) To bow or crouch in servility.
• cringe v. (Intransitive, figuratively) To act in an obsequious or servile manner.
• cringe v. (Transitive, obsolete) To draw (a body part) close to the body; also, to distort or wrinkle (The face, etc.).
• cringe v. (Transitive, obsolete) To bow or crouch to (someone) in servility; to escort (someone) in a cringing manner.
• cringe n. (Countable) A gesture or posture of cringing (recoiling or shrinking).
• cringe n. (Countable, figuratively) An act or disposition of servile obeisance.
• cringe n. (Countable, Britain, dialectal) A crick (“painful muscular cramp or spasm of some part of the body”).
• cringe n. (Uncountable, slang) Awkwardness or embarrassment which causes an onlooker to cringe; cringeworthiness.
• cringe adj. (Slang) Inducing awkwardness, embarrassment, or secondhand embarrassment; cringemaking, cringeworthy, cringy.

— Foreign word, define in English —

• Polish
  • cringe n. (Slang) cringe, cringeworthiness.

— English words, defined in French —

• cringe n. Mouvement de recul.
• cringe v. Avoir un mouvement de recul.
• cringe adj. (Familier) Malaisant.

— English words, defined in Spanish —

• cringe v. Encogerse o doblarse de miedo o en actitud servil.
• cringe v. Actuar servilmente.
• cringe v. Dar escalofríos.
• cringe s. Deferencia servil.

— English words, defined in Portuguese —

• cringe s. O ato de encolher-se, por medo, vergonha, etc.
• cringe v. Encolher-se, por medo, vergonha, etc.

— In German —

• cringe Adj. Jugendsprachlich, über (insbesondere ältere) Personen…

— In Dutch —

• cringe bijv. (Jongerentaal) raar, gênant.

— In French —

• cringe adj.m. Qui suscite beaucoup de gêne ou d’embarras.

— In Portuguese —

• cringe adj. (Estrangeirismo) embaraçosamente despertante de aguda sensação…

— In Italian —

• cringe agg. (Giovanile) (Internet) (Anglicismo) imbarazzante.

67 English words from 12 English definitions

act also as␣in awkwardness body body␣part bow Britain causes close close␣to Countable cower cramp crick cringe cringemaking cringeworthiness cringeworthy cringing cringy crouch dialectal disgust disposition distort draw embarrassment escort etc experience face fear feeling figuratively flinch gesture Inducing Intransitive inward manner muscular obeisance obsequious obsolete onlooker painful part posture recoil recoiling secondhand servile servility shrink shrinking slang some someone spasm tense the to␣the Transitive Uncountable which wrinkle

5 English words from 14 foreign definitions

beaucoup Dar embarras etc Internet

37 foreign words from 14 foreign definitions

actitud Actuar aguda ältere Anglicismo ato Avoir beaucoup␣de Deferencia doblarse Encogerse encolher escalofríos Estrangeirismo Familier gênant gêne Giovanile imbarazzante insbesondere Jongerentaal Jugendsprachlich Malaisant medo miedo mouvement Personen por Qui raar recul sensação servil servilmente suscite über vergonha

27 suffixes (New words found by adding one or more letters at the end of the word.)

cringed cringer cringes cringey cringers cringest cringeth cringedst cringeful cringefest cringeling cringesome cringefests cringelings cringe␣comedy cringemaking cringe-making cringeometer cringe-o-meter cringetastic cringeworthy cringeometers cringe-o-meters cringe␣comedies cringe-inducing cringeworthily cringeworthiness

2 times in the middle (New words found by adding letters in front and at the end of the word.)

scringed scringes

2 prefixes (New words found by adding one or more letters in front of the word.)

scringe cultural␣cringe

8 words-in-word (Words found as is inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

crin ing -ing -ïng rin ring Ring ringe

4 words-in-word RTL (Words found written from right to left, inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

GNI IRC NIR N.␣Ir.

3 anagrams (New words found by changing the order of the letters.)

cering genric rec'ing

22 anagrams found with an extra letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word and an extra letter.)

anergic canigre clinger Clinger coreign creping crêping crewing cringed cringer cringes cringey cringle energic generic Grecian Gricean percing reccing recking re-icing scringe

21 anagrams found minus a letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word minus a letter.)

Cegin cerin -crine -ergic genic -genic Grein grice Grice Grine Negri nicer NICER niger Niger nigre reign Reign renig re-nig ringe

3 cousins (New words found by changing only one letter.)

bringe cringy fringe

2 lipograms (New words found when removing only one letter.)

-crine ringe

One epenthesis (New word found when adding only one letter.)

cringle

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