cringe vs meet

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. 

meet

verb
  • To satisfy; to comply with. 

  • To gather for a formal or social discussion; to hold a meeting. 

  • To touch or hit something while moving. 

  • To converge and finally touch or intersect. 

  • To respond to (an argument etc.) with something equally convincing; to refute. 

  • To be mixed with, to be combined with aspects of. 

  • To come face to face with someone by arrangement. 

  • To get acquainted with someone. 

  • To come face to face with by accident; to encounter. 

  • To play a match. 

  • To balance or come out correct. 

  • To come together in conflict. 

  • To adjoin, be physically touching. 

  • To perceive; to come to a knowledge of; to have personal acquaintance with; to experience; to suffer. 

noun
  • The greatest lower bound, an operation between pairs of elements in a lattice, denoted by the symbol ∧. 

  • A meeting. 

  • A meeting of two trains in opposite directions on a single track, when one is put into a siding to let the other cross. 

  • A gathering of riders, horses and hounds for foxhunting; a field meet for hunting. 

  • A sports competition, especially for track and field or swimming. 

How often have the words cringe and meet occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )