| 释义 |
Definition of cringe in English: cringeverbcringing, cringed, cringes krɪn(d)ʒkrɪndʒ [no object]1Bend one's head and body in fear or apprehension or in a servile manner. （因害怕、恐惧或卑微地）蜷缩；卑躬屈膝 he cringed away from the blow 他害怕挨打而缩成一团。 Example sentencesExamples - Jordan cringed with fear as she watched the officer's face grow red with anger.
- But as much as I love him, I cringe in fear every time I see him.
- Death seemed to stalk her soul and she cringed in fear of it but that served as a powerful form of motivation.
- Kokon and Tona cringed in fear that their master might turn on them and kill them.
- When I did not, his hands tightened around my mouth and arm until I cringed away in pain.
- He tracks them down into an underground bar where they cower and cringe when they spot him entering the room.
- First I will look down, so that every cell in my body cringes with the awareness that I am doing this to myself, that this is wholly my choice; then I will step out into nothingness.
- Bojangles, the Mecca for all the crims and drug freaks, is the venue to make any family or business man cringe with fear and disgust.
- The six-storey tall screen captures the demonic fury of the falls in such realistic detail that you cringe with fear as you watch it.
- She cringed for she feared that something far more terrible was going to happen.
- Dimitri cringed away from the raging monster and quickly stumbled towards the door.
- The word die seemed to hang in the air like an evil spell, a black enchantment that clutched at their hearts, made their mortal souls cringe with fear.
- The boy cringed away but remained defiant, his anger driving the fear out of him.
- They have a field day when they see decent people cringe in fear or are immobilised by the power of fear itself.
- When he reached out to take her hand, she cringed away from him and fisted her skirt.
- When Nikki rotated his ankle the opposite direction, he cringed and his whole body tensed.
- He cringed away from Arun, eyes wide, then blinked and appeared to recognize the trapper.
- He cringed away from the sound and the feel of it, causing the papers to fall to the floor.
- Petal, crouching in the corner, the sheets around her naked body, cringed.
- Ideal as a watchdog, this dog will neither be aggressive nor cringe with fear on accosting a stranger.
Synonyms cower, shrink, draw back, pull back, recoil, start, shy (away), wince, flinch, blench, blanch, dodge, duck, crouch, shudder, shake, tremble, quiver, quail, quake get cold feet kowtow, bow and scrape, grovel, creep, crawl, toady, fawn, truckle, cower be servile towards, be sycophantic towards, dance attendance on, ingratiate oneself with, curry favour with flatter, woo, pay court to, get round informal suck up to, make up to, lick someone's boots, be all over, fall all over, sweet-talk, soft-soap North American brown-nose archaic blandish - 1.1 Experience an inward shiver of embarrassment or disgust.
（因尴尬或厌恶）战战兢兢，畏缩 I cringed at the fellow's stupidity 我厌恶这个家伙的愚蠢。 Example sentencesExamples - Heck, there are times when I have cringed at the musical tastes of musicians I admire.
- Yanare took a deep breath secretly hoping that she could meet someone in this party that would make her heart beat rapidly instead of making her cringe in disgust.
- She cringed at the feel of his breath on her neck, struggling to get away from him.
- The room smelled like a combination of cheap liquor and bad body odor, to make things worse the room was hot and the smell made Jeremy cringe in disgust.
- He cringed at his own nosiness, but this place was easily worth a million and a half.
- I know it was a harmless mistake but I just cringe at stuff like this.
- The floor was dusty and Carmen cringed at the sight of her dirty, torn nightgown.
- The session then continued without the interpreter, although inwardly I cringed at how stupid I must have looked.
- I cringed at the thought of him urinating on it in the full view of the highway.
- Again, it wasn't quite how he wanted to say it, and he cringed at how it came out.
- In a week or three, I'll look back on what I've been writing recently and I'll either cringe with embarrassment or just be totally baffled by what was going on in my head.
- I took my first step into the store and cringed at the music that they were playing.
- Sarah inwardly cringed at the thought of how many people would approach them.
- I cringed at the title, hating the reminder that I was royalty while she was common.
- Sure to make you howl with laughter and cringe with embarrassment, this is a definitive highlight of the Michaelmas theatre season.
- Calida cringed at the effortless way that those words passed through his lips.
- I glanced at my reflection in the mirror and almost cringed at the sight of my messy state.
- Thomas cringed at her all too accurate description and he felt annoyed by it.
- Inwardly he cringed at the memory.
- I could hear Beth snigger in the background and cringed at how embarrassing this was.
Synonyms wince, squirm, blush, flush, go red feel embarrassed, feel ashamed, feel sheepish, feel mortified, wince with embarrassment
nounPlural cringes krɪn(d)ʒkrɪndʒ An act of cringing. Example sentencesExamples - So go he does, turning on his heel and slinking out with the cringe of a dog that's been kicked one too many times.
- But the characters are so flat and unappealing that I couldn't muster up a single empathetic cringe for 'em.
- Pierre gave a small cringe as Marge turned from fixing the table with mild surprise.
- I moved my arms to the side and dropped the cloth covered items onto the ground out of the way, so I wouldn't land on them and break them, and then closed my eyes in a cringe to prepare for the pain I was bound to feel in the next second.
- She shot a kind look at Kaiyo, whose perpetual cringe eased in reply.
- As for monarchists weighing into the debate right now, it seems that never in the field of human controversy has greater cringe been inflicted on so many, by so few.
- His robots fight among themselves most realistically, and his crowning achievement is a pitched battle on an underground road, believable enough to induce cringes and curled fists.
- Thankfully, this is also one of the few episodes where Ralph's cowardly cringe is tossed aside and he stands up for himself.
- Supporters of this war who are in the mood for an ideological pogrom should chill out for a while, and opponents need not fold into permanent cringe position.
- The chuckle turned into a cringe as I swung a little, due to the movement caused by my laughter.
- Syringe rhymes with cringe, a poetic coincidence not lost on those who get wobbly even thinking about their annual flu shot.
- Genevan felt a strange cringe in his stomach at the sight of her.
Derivativesnoun The minions, the accomplices, the yesmen, the campfollowers, the puppets, the buckpassers, the cringers, the well rewarded, who from this government look down on the people and ally themselves with the Empire. Example sentencesExamples - Okay, this is a film for kids - probably under 12s - but, regardless of how hard you try to get yourself into a child's mindset, it's still a bit of a cringer.
- The carpers and cringers invariably compare Holyrood with Westminster.
- Runner-up in the list of Christmas cringers was There's No-one Quite Like Grandma by St Winifred's School Choir.
- Watching him throw an embarrassingly long fit about the creative direction of the movie and calling a female producer a ‘smart girl ‘is a cringer.’
OriginMiddle English crenge, crenche, related to Old English cringan, crincan 'bend, yield, fall in battle', of Germanic origin and related to Dutch krengen 'heel over' and German krank 'sick', also to crank1. crank from Old English: The mechanical crank is found in Old English cranc recorded in crancstæf, a weaver's implement. The primary notion is ‘something bent together’ and it is related to crincan ‘to bend’, probably also the source of cringe (Middle English). Crank (early 17th century) and cranky (late 18th century) meaning an eccentric or bad-tempered person are from a dialect word originally meaning ‘weak, in poor health’.
Rhymesbinge, fringe, hinge, impinge, singe, springe, swinge, syringe, tinge, twinge, whinge Definition of cringe in US English: cringeverbkrinjkrɪndʒ [no object]1Bend one's head and body in fear or in a servile manner. （因害怕、恐惧或卑微地）蜷缩；卑躬屈膝 he cringed away from the blow 他害怕挨打而缩成一团。 Example sentencesExamples - Death seemed to stalk her soul and she cringed in fear of it but that served as a powerful form of motivation.
- Petal, crouching in the corner, the sheets around her naked body, cringed.
- Bojangles, the Mecca for all the crims and drug freaks, is the venue to make any family or business man cringe with fear and disgust.
- But as much as I love him, I cringe in fear every time I see him.
- Dimitri cringed away from the raging monster and quickly stumbled towards the door.
- He tracks them down into an underground bar where they cower and cringe when they spot him entering the room.
- When he reached out to take her hand, she cringed away from him and fisted her skirt.
- Jordan cringed with fear as she watched the officer's face grow red with anger.
- The six-storey tall screen captures the demonic fury of the falls in such realistic detail that you cringe with fear as you watch it.
- The boy cringed away but remained defiant, his anger driving the fear out of him.
- When I did not, his hands tightened around my mouth and arm until I cringed away in pain.
- They have a field day when they see decent people cringe in fear or are immobilised by the power of fear itself.
- First I will look down, so that every cell in my body cringes with the awareness that I am doing this to myself, that this is wholly my choice; then I will step out into nothingness.
- Ideal as a watchdog, this dog will neither be aggressive nor cringe with fear on accosting a stranger.
- Kokon and Tona cringed in fear that their master might turn on them and kill them.
- He cringed away from the sound and the feel of it, causing the papers to fall to the floor.
- The word die seemed to hang in the air like an evil spell, a black enchantment that clutched at their hearts, made their mortal souls cringe with fear.
- When Nikki rotated his ankle the opposite direction, he cringed and his whole body tensed.
- She cringed for she feared that something far more terrible was going to happen.
- He cringed away from Arun, eyes wide, then blinked and appeared to recognize the trapper.
Synonyms cower, shrink, draw back, pull back, recoil, start, shy, shy away, wince, flinch, blench, blanch, dodge, duck, crouch, shudder, shake, tremble, quiver, quail, quake kowtow, bow and scrape, grovel, creep, crawl, toady, fawn, truckle, cower - 1.1 Experience an inward shiver of embarrassment or disgust.
（因尴尬或厌恶）战战兢兢，畏缩 I cringed at the fellow's stupidity 我厌恶这个家伙的愚蠢。 Example sentencesExamples - She cringed at the feel of his breath on her neck, struggling to get away from him.
- The room smelled like a combination of cheap liquor and bad body odor, to make things worse the room was hot and the smell made Jeremy cringe in disgust.
- I cringed at the thought of him urinating on it in the full view of the highway.
- He cringed at his own nosiness, but this place was easily worth a million and a half.
- The floor was dusty and Carmen cringed at the sight of her dirty, torn nightgown.
- Again, it wasn't quite how he wanted to say it, and he cringed at how it came out.
- Inwardly he cringed at the memory.
- Thomas cringed at her all too accurate description and he felt annoyed by it.
- I know it was a harmless mistake but I just cringe at stuff like this.
- I could hear Beth snigger in the background and cringed at how embarrassing this was.
- Sarah inwardly cringed at the thought of how many people would approach them.
- I took my first step into the store and cringed at the music that they were playing.
- Calida cringed at the effortless way that those words passed through his lips.
- In a week or three, I'll look back on what I've been writing recently and I'll either cringe with embarrassment or just be totally baffled by what was going on in my head.
- Heck, there are times when I have cringed at the musical tastes of musicians I admire.
- Sure to make you howl with laughter and cringe with embarrassment, this is a definitive highlight of the Michaelmas theatre season.
- Yanare took a deep breath secretly hoping that she could meet someone in this party that would make her heart beat rapidly instead of making her cringe in disgust.
- I glanced at my reflection in the mirror and almost cringed at the sight of my messy state.
- I cringed at the title, hating the reminder that I was royalty while she was common.
- The session then continued without the interpreter, although inwardly I cringed at how stupid I must have looked.
Synonyms wince, squirm, blush, flush, go red
nounkrinjkrɪndʒ An act of cringing. Example sentencesExamples - But the characters are so flat and unappealing that I couldn't muster up a single empathetic cringe for 'em.
- As for monarchists weighing into the debate right now, it seems that never in the field of human controversy has greater cringe been inflicted on so many, by so few.
- She shot a kind look at Kaiyo, whose perpetual cringe eased in reply.
- The chuckle turned into a cringe as I swung a little, due to the movement caused by my laughter.
- Pierre gave a small cringe as Marge turned from fixing the table with mild surprise.
- His robots fight among themselves most realistically, and his crowning achievement is a pitched battle on an underground road, believable enough to induce cringes and curled fists.
- So go he does, turning on his heel and slinking out with the cringe of a dog that's been kicked one too many times.
- Supporters of this war who are in the mood for an ideological pogrom should chill out for a while, and opponents need not fold into permanent cringe position.
- Genevan felt a strange cringe in his stomach at the sight of her.
- I moved my arms to the side and dropped the cloth covered items onto the ground out of the way, so I wouldn't land on them and break them, and then closed my eyes in a cringe to prepare for the pain I was bound to feel in the next second.
- Syringe rhymes with cringe, a poetic coincidence not lost on those who get wobbly even thinking about their annual flu shot.
- Thankfully, this is also one of the few episodes where Ralph's cowardly cringe is tossed aside and he stands up for himself.
OriginMiddle English crenge, crenche, related to Old English cringan, crincan ‘bend, yield, fall in battle’, of Germanic origin and related to Dutch krengen ‘heel over’ and German krank ‘sick’, also to crank. |