To bow or crouch in servility.
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 act in an obsequious or servile manner.
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.
Inducing awkwardness, embarrassment, or secondhand embarrassment; cringemaking, cringeworthy, cringy.
To lie flat or face-down.
To throw oneself down in submission.
To overcome or overpower.
To cause to lie down, to flatten.
Lying flat, face-down.
Physically incapacitated from environmental exposure or debilitating disease.
Trailing on the ground; procumbent.
Emotionally devastated.