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 cause to doubt and waver; to make to hesitate; to make less steady or confident; to shock.
To cease to stand firm; to begin to give way; to fail.
To begin to doubt and waver in purposes; to become less confident or determined; to hesitate.
To arrange (a series of parts) on each side of a median line alternately, as the spokes of a wheel or the rivets of a boiler seam.
In standing or walking, to sway from one side to the other as if about to fall; to stand or walk unsteadily; to reel or totter.
To arrange similar objects such that each is ahead or above and to one side of the next.
To schedule in intervals or at different times.
To cause to reel or totter.
An unsteady movement of the body in walking or standing as if one were about to fall; a reeling motion.
The spacing out of various actions over time.
One who attends a stag night.
The horizontal positioning of a biplane, triplane, or multiplane's wings in relation to one another.
Bewilderment; perplexity.
The difference in circumference between the left and right tires on a racing vehicle. It is used on oval tracks to make the car turn better in the corners.
A disease of horses and other animals, attended by reeling, unsteady gait or sudden falling.