To cower, flinch, recoil, shrink, or tense, as in disgust, embarrassment, or fear.
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.
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 disturb emotionally; to shock.
To give a tremulous tone to; to trill.
To move or remove by agitating; to throw off by a jolting or vibrating motion.
To dance.
To lose, evade, or get rid of (something).
To threaten to overthrow.
To be agitated; to lose firmness.
To cause (something) to move rapidly in opposite directions alternatingly.
To shake hands.
To move from side to side.
To move (one's head) from side to side, especially to indicate refusal, reluctance, or disapproval.
A crack or split between the growth rings in wood.
The act of shaking or being shaken; tremulous or back-and-forth motion.
A rapid alternation of a principal tone with another represented on the next degree of the staff above or below it; a trill.
Shake cannabis, small, leafy fragments of cannabis that gather at the bottom of a bag of marijuana.
An adulterant added to cocaine powder.
A milkshake.
A fissure in rock or earth.
A shook of staves and headings.
A basic wooden shingle made from split logs, traditionally used for roofing etc.
A twitch, a spasm, a tremor.
Instant, second. (Especially in two shakes.)
One of the staves of a hogshead or barrel taken apart.
The redshank, so called from the nodding of its head while on the ground.
A beverage made by adding ice cream to a (usually carbonated) drink; a float.
A shock or disturbance.
In singing, notes (usually high ones) sung vibrato.
A thin shingle.