cringe
/ˈkɹɪnd͡ʒ/ verbo C1En español: encogerse, sentir vergüenza ajena, acobardarse
- To cower, flinch, recoil, shrink, or tense, as in disgust, embarrassment, or fear. · He cringed as the bird collided with the window.
- To experience an inward feeling of disgust, embarrassment, or fear; (by extension) to feel very embarrassed.
- To bow or crouch in servility.
- To act in an obsequious or servile manner.
Plural cringe · He/she/it cringes · Pasado cringed · Participio pasado cringed · Forma en -ing cringing
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Sometimes the road went through woods where maples were beginning to hang out scarlet banners; sometimes it crossed rivers on bridges that made Anne’s flesh cringe with the old, half-delightful fear; sometimes it wound along a harbor shore and passed by a little cluster of weather-gray fishing huts; again it mounted to hills whence a far sweep of curving upland or misty-blue sky could be seen; but wherever it went there was much of interest to discuss.
For many decades, a significant cultural cringe existed, prompting ambitious individuals to artificially modify their speech toward the Cultivated ideal.
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