cringe
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Động từ
verb- 1.
(intransitive)To cower, flinch, recoil, shrink, or tense, as in disgust, embarrassment, or fear.
He cringed as the bird collided with the window.
- 2.
(figuratively, intransitive)To experience an inward feeling of disgust, embarrassment, or fear; (by extension) to feel very embarrassed.
- 3.
(intransitive)To bow or crouch in servility.
- 4.
(figuratively, intransitive)To act in an obsequious or servile manner.
- 5.
(obsolete, transitive)To draw (a body part) close to the body; also, to distort or wrinkle (the face, etc.).
- 6.
(obsolete, transitive)To bow or crouch to (someone) in servility; to escort (someone) in a cringing manner.
Danh từ
noun- 1.
(countable)A gesture or posture of cringing (recoiling or shrinking).
He glanced with a cringe at the mess on his desk.
- 2.
(countable, figuratively)An act or disposition of servile obeisance.
- 3.
(British, countable, dialectal)A crick (“painful muscular cramp or spasm of some part of the body”).
- 4.
(derogatory, slang, uncountable)Things, particularly online content, which would cause an onlooker to cringe from secondhand embarrassment.
Bro... you just posted cringe
There was so much cringe in that episode!
Tính từ
adjective- 1.
(derogatory, slang)Synonym of cringeworthy or uncool, inducing awkwardness or secondhand embarrassment.
Brands trying to appeal to young people with memes is the most cringe thing ever.
Đồng nghĩa: cringeworthy or uncool, inducing awkwardness or secondhand embarrassment
interjection
interjection- 1.
(derogatory, slang)Stated in response to something cringeworthy.
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thumb|A former [[nun working as a prostitute cringes (sense 1) in terror and remorse before Clement, a Dominican friar, who seeks to help her return to the convent, an episode from Charles Reade’s novel The Cloister and the Hearth (1861).From.]]