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▸ verb:  (intransitive) To cower, flinch, recoil, shrink, or tense, as in disgust, embarrassment, or fear.
▸ verb:  (intransitive, figuratively) To experience an inward feeling of disgust, embarrassment, or fear; (by extension) to feel very embarrassed.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To bow or crouch in servility.
▸ verb:  (intransitive, figuratively) To act in an obsequious or servile manner.
▸ verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To draw (a body part) close to the body; also, to distort or wrinkle (the face, etc.).
▸ verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To bow or crouch to (someone) in servility; to escort (someone) in a cringing manner.
▸ noun:  (countable) A gesture or posture of cringing (recoiling or shrinking).
▸ noun:  (countable, figuratively) An act or disposition of servile obeisance.
▸ noun:  (countable, British, dialectal) A crick (“painful muscular cramp or spasm of some part of the body”).
▸ noun:  (uncountable, slang, derogatory) Things, particularly online content, which would cause an onlooker to cringe from secondhand embarrassment.
▸ adjective:  (slang, derogatory) Synonym of cringeworthy or uncool, inducing awkwardness or secondhand embarrassment.

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