cringe

Significado (inglés)

1. To cower, flinch, recoil, shrink, or tense, as in disgust, embarrassment, or fear.
2. To experience an inward feeling of disgust, embarrassment, or fear; (by extension) to feel very embarrassed.
3. To bow or crouch in servility.
4. To act in an obsequious or servile manner.
5. (obsolete) To draw (a body part) close to the body; also, to distort or wrinkle (the face, etc.).
6. (obsolete) To bow or crouch to (someone) in servility; to escort (someone) in a cringing manner.

cower

shrink

yield

fawn upon

humble oneself

move back

shrink from

bow low

ebb away

Frecuencia

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/kɹɪnd͡ʒ/

The verb is derived from Middle English crengen (“to bend in a haughty manner; to condescend”) [and other forms], from Old English *crenċan, *crenċġan, *crenġan (“to cause to fall or turn”), the causative of crinċġan (“to yield; to cringe; to fall; to die, perish”), from Proto-Germanic *krangijaną (“to cause to fall; to cause to turn”), from Proto-Germanic *kringaną, *krinkaną (“to fall; to turn; to yield”) (from Proto-Indo-European *grenǵʰ- (“to turn”)) + *-janą (suffix forming causatives with the sense ‘to cause to do (the action of the verb)’ from strong verbs). The English word is cognate with Danish krænge (“to turn inside out, evert”), Dutch krengen (“to careen, veer”), Scots crenge, creenge, creinge, crienge (“to cringe; to shrug”), Swedish kränga (“to careen; to heel, lurch; to toss”), and West Frisian kringe (“to pinch; to poke; to push; to insist, urge”); and is a doublet of crinkle. The noun and adjective are derived from the verb via zero derivation.