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.
A deceit; a trick.
A sidelong glance.
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.
Inducing awkwardness, embarrassment, or secondhand embarrassment; cringemaking, cringeworthy, cringy.
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.