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 tremble or shake, especially when cold or frightened.
To cause to shake or tremble, as a sail, by steering close to the wind.
To break into splinters or fragments.
A small wedge, as for fastening the bolt of a window shutter.
Collective noun for a group of sharks
A bodily response to early hypothermia.ᵂᵖ
A sheave or small wheel in a pulley.
The act of shivering.
A fragment or splinter, especially of glass or stone.
A variety of blue slate.