blench vs cringe

blench

verb
  • To hinder; obstruct; disconcert; foil. 

  • To deceive; cheat. 

  • To fly off; to turn aside. 

  • To shrink; start back; give way; flinch; turn aside or fly off. 

  • To quail. 

  • To draw back from; shrink; avoid; elude; deny, as from fear. 

noun
  • A deceit; a trick. 

  • A sidelong glance. 

cringe

verb
  • To act in an obsequious or servile manner. 

  • To experience an inward feeling of disgust, embarrassment, or fear; (by extension) to feel very embarrassed. 

  • To cower, flinch, recoil, shrink, or tense, as in disgust, embarrassment, or fear. 

  • To bow or crouch in servility. 

adj
  • Inducing awkwardness, embarrassment, or secondhand embarrassment; cringemaking, cringeworthy, cringy. 

noun
  • A gesture or posture of cringing (recoiling or shrinking). 

  • An act or disposition of servile obeisance. 

  • A crick (“painful muscular cramp or spasm of some part of the body”). 

  • Awkwardness or embarrassment which causes an onlooker to cringe; cringeworthiness. 

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