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What is another word for
cringing
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Adjective
Prepared to obey others unquestioningly
Having a dejected or guilty appearance
Cowardly or weak in character
Noun
An excessive willingness to serve or please others
The state in which someone has to accept the control of another person
Verb
Present participle for to react in fear or apprehension
Present participle for to experience an inward shiver of embarrassment or disgust
Present participle for to act in a subservient or submissive manner
Present participle for to crouch close to the ground
Present participle for submit to or acknowledge the merit of
Present participle for to anticipate with great apprehension or fear
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Adjective
▲
Prepared to obey others unquestioningly
servile
crouching
cowardly
obsequious
submissive
fawning
grovelling
UK
sycophantic
groveling
US
subservient
ingratiating
slavish
bootlicking
abject
toadying
unctuous
oily
smarmy
slimy
humble
brown-nosing
deferential
soapy
toadyish
Uriah Heepish
sucky
truckling
snivelling
UK
flattering
arse-licking
sniveling
US
oleaginous
ass-kissing
greasy
craven
kowtowing
obeisant
crawling
timid
gushing
sycophantish
suckholing
apple-polishing
docile
compliant
self-abasing
brownnosing
creeping
smooth
slick
suave
adulatory
glib
parasitical
meek
obedient
gushy
reverential
yielding
effusive
forelock-tugging
arse-kissing
acquiescent
subordinate
unassertive
parasitic
spineless
passive
resigned
smooth-tongued
self-effacing
downtrodden
cowering
subject
bowing and scraping
mealy-mouthed
under the thumb
under one's thumb
humiliating
excessively deferential
timeserving
cringey
low
mean
conniving
all over someone
wormlike
bowing
prostrate
fulsome
urbane
saccharine
insincere
hagiographical
hagiographic
cloying
plausible
cajoling
nauseating
hypocritical
buttery
sickening
wheedling
dominated
slippery
saponaceous
subjugated
browbeaten
bullied
phoney
UK
creamy
smug
pinguid
oppressed
phony
US
creepy
respectful
compliable
silver-tongued
intimidated
repressed
smooth-talking
nagged
smooth-spoken
honey-tongued
constrained
unresisting
uxorious
henpecked
treated like dirt
led by the nose
tied to someone's apron strings
subjected to nagging
ground down
without a mind of one's own
wife-ridden
in fear of one's partner
under someone's heel
dutiful
biddable
accommodating
pliant
duteous
menial
subdued
spiritless
mild
ductile
lamblike
resistless
longanimous
dancing
in one's power
in one's clutches
in one's pocket
at one's mercy
a slave to
at beck and call
soft
tractable
manageable
serving
charming
silken
amenable
sugary
lowly
obliging
disarming
complaisant
malleable
willing
tame
ingratiatory
sweet-talking
honeyed
insinuative
gentle
persuadable
agreeable
pliable
governable
nonresistant
controllable
conformable
law-abiding
insinuating
ignoble
appreciative
regardful
encomiastic
polite
base
encomiastical
cooperative
attentive
accepting
insinuatory
suggestive
praising
assenting
tolerant
despicable
convincible
unprotesting
faithful
assentive
complying
persuasible
flexible
easily persuaded
soft-soaping
game
overly flattering
winsome
winning
endearing
supple
coaxing
admiring
civil
courteous
flannelling
blarneying
gratifying
considerate
retiring
unassuming
non-resisting
thoughtful
withdrawing
dependent
rhapsodic
awed
compromising
adaptable
patient
reverent
deferent
conciliatory
forgiving
responsive
forbearing
trusting
gullible
workable
eloquent
consenting
acclamatory
eulogistic
silky
impressionable
shy
cowed
unobtrusive
demure
mannerly
open
blandishing
worshipful
lionizing
US
complimentary
suggestible
easy-going
rave
lionising
UK
easily swayed
supine
highly favourable
sheepish
supplicatory
applauding
willing to compromise
acceding
timorous
quiet
unambitious
hesitant
tentative
apprehensive
fearful
domesticated
obeying
bowing down
uncomplaining
nonresisting
comformable
giving-in
fast-talking
commending
surrendering
amiable
placable
agreeing
conforming
unresistant
approving
trainable
disciplinable
teachable
handleable
open to change
tolerating
mim
self-conscious
sugarcoated
easy
rolling with punches
sweet
persuasive
pleasing
acquiescing
suasible
susceptive
ready
sweet-sounding
disciplined
good
devoted
venerating
loyal
observant
docious
honoring
US
sheeplike
hearsome
unquestioning
honouring
UK
well-behaved
well-trained
under control
well disciplined
well trained
wrapped around finger
on a string
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Adjective
▲
Having a dejected or guilty appearance
hangdog
downcast
wretched
defeated
abject
browbeaten
cowed
guilty
shamefaced
abashed
crestfallen
disconsolate
furtive
guilty-looking
woebegone
ashamed
bad
blue
brokenhearted
dejected
depressed
despondent
doleful
down
downhearted
droopy
embarrassed
forlorn
gloomy
glum
heartbroken
heartsick
heartsore
heavyhearted
inconsolable
intimidated
joyless
low
low-spirited
melancholic
melancholy
miserable
mournful
sad
saddened
sheepish
sneaking
sorrowful
sorry
uncomfortable
unhappy
woeful
conscience-stricken
cowering
humiliated
cast down
down in the mouth
dispirited
down in the dumps
dismal
desolate
discouraged
heavy-hearted
disheartened
morose
despairing
broken-hearted
dolorous
cheerless
fed up
grief-stricken
distressed
disappointed
lugubrious
tearful
moody
pessimistic
in low spirits
chap-fallen
sombre
UK
long-faced
hurting
somber
US
grieving
chapfallen
in pain
anguished
troubled
dragged
upset
brassed off
demoralized
US
sullen
cheesed off
choked
in the dumps
oppressed
mirthless
demoralised
UK
bummed out
in the doldrums
in the pits
sick as a parrot
spiritless
destroyed
crushed
down and out
dreary
hopeless
grim
piteous
afflicted
funereal
dismayed
pitiful
grieved
bleak
rueful
devastated
defeatist
lachrymose
teary
down-hearted
wistful
shot down
out of sorts
all torn up
weighed down
in a blue funk
as sick as a parrot
singing the blues
black
distraught
saturnine
tragic
regretful
dour
depressing
painful
sorrowing
comfortless
daunted
hurt
depressive
tristful
solemn
mopey
weepy
dull
in despair
dolent
cut up
ripped
sick at heart
bleeding
cast-down
taken down
torn up
on a downer
pathetic
pained
pitiable
down-in-the-mouth
sorry for yourself
tormented
shattered
emotional
suffering
mourning
enervated
distressing
sapped
bereaved
subdued
flat
sepulchral
helpless
heavy
elegiac
bereft
sour
plaintive
gutted
grumpy
mopish
crabbed
broody
bummed-out
surly
sulky
adust
unconsolable
downbeat
tortured
heartrending
calamitous
weary
Eeyorish
crummy
ruthful
damp
weeping
racked
morbid
in doldrums
in tears
in grief
bowed down
sunk in gloom
low in spirits
let down
in the toilet
full of sorrow
in mourning
in sorrow
low-down
displeased
shaken
pensive
worried
undermined
apathetic
humourless
UK
humorless
US
aggrieved
perturbed
bothered
listless
brooding
sunk
torn-up
unsatisfied
discontent
troubling
tear-jerking
affecting
disillusioned
dirgeful
emo
deflated
without energy
saddening
depressant
godforsaken
disturbed
concerned
lowered
bowed
feel-bad
let-down
not happy
very sad
sluggish
off
moping
ugly
churlish
heart-sick
afflicting
luckless
shook
antsy
discombobulated
burned
uptight
bugged
sore
contused
huffy
ill-humoured
UK
poor
worthless
have the blahs
blue funk
looking as if one had lost a pound and found a penny
feeling down
full of gloom
harrowing
threnodic
plangent
lamentable
deplorable
dirge-like
grievous
teed off
browned off
with a long face
ticked off
peed off
strained
discontented
wounded
negative
ill-humored
US
prostrate with grief
dark
unable to be consoled
unable to be comforted
beside oneself with grief
agonized
US
ailing
agonised
UK
taken aback
in a funk
desperate
griefstricken
shook up
dysphoric
nostalgic
lonesome
lonely
elegiacal
drear
lamenting
heartbreaking
powerless
bummed
downtrodden
hapless
down-and-out
dashed
clouded
dampened
atrabilious
drooping
sagging
destitute
lorn
cynical
heart-rending
gray
US
grey
UK
cold
tenebrous
dire
tenebrific
dreich
dispiriting
plutonian
darkening
chill
Cimmerian
drab
murky
broken
sunless
cloudy
disgruntled
oppressive
disheartening
overwhelmed
irked
grave
unnerved
bitter
sober
annoyed
dim
dingy
piqued
peeved
unwelcoming
irritated
devitalized
resigned
earnest
beaten
put out
dolesome
dissatisfied
austere
bored
exasperated
dejecting
humbled
fatalistic
tired
thrown
sick
traumatized
US
stony-faced
foreboding
suspicious
distrustful
gloom-ridden
angry
narked
doubting
traumatised
UK
alarmist
drearisome
uninviting
unenthusiastic
bewailing
bemoaning
wailing
aching
sedate
heavy with grief
serious
overcome with sorrow
inhospitable
bare
stark
vexed
discouraging
given to looking on the black side
bland
unfortunate
mentally defeated
clinical
draggy
impersonal
wintry
US
jarring
wintery
UK
institutional
unconfident
unhopeful
bearish
drained
disenchanted
deterred
cross
doubtful
overcome
disconcerted
anxious
jaded
disquieted
funeral
deploring
blasé
wearied
unamused
sobersided
regrettable
resentful
chagrined
miffed
angst-ridden
stern
colorless
US
colourless
UK
weighty
severe
hacked off
po-faced
down in dumps
unsmiling
staid
long-suffering
persecuted
sourpuss
muted
sick and tired
triste
crabby
lacklustre
UK
deep
lackluster
US
languid
no-nonsense
poker-faced
languorous
shadowy
in a huff
unexciting
blah
uninteresting
uninspiring
boring
monotonous
macabre
without hope
lifeless
humdrum
empty
unfavorable
US
unfavourable
UK
sinister
weakened
unoptimistic
overpowered
suicidal
unmanned
horrible
ominous
companionless
atrocious
mopy
taciturn
reflective
frantic
down in mouth
dolorific
afflictive
horrified
dirgelike
doomed
no-win
strabilious
uneasy
shot-down
unmitigable
agitated
discomposed
ruffled
feeling low
frustrated
discomfited
poignant
crying
worrying
harassed
wrecked
discountenanced
flustered
aflutter
plagued
can't win
up the creek
harsh
languished
having the blahs
having blue devils
demoralizing
US
difficult
distressful
demoralising
UK
dreadful
upsetting
disappointing
aghast
not a prayer
in the soup
haunted
spooked
harrowed
horrid
unenthused
beat
sobbing
worsted
vanquished
baulked
UK
objecting
balked
US
excruciating
shocking
traumatic
troublesome
terrible
crushing
jumpy
unglued
whimpering
snivelling
UK
chilly
at end of one's rope
at the end of your tether
offended
indignant
affronted
close to tears
misanthropic
strung out
moving
agonizing
US
unpleasant
discomposing
agonising
UK
vexatious
wronged
nettled
riled
blubbering
maudlin
put off
mortified
beat-down
come-apart
caved-in
down-in-mouth
larmoyant
pining
lacking in confidence
lacking in enthusiasm
having lost heart
horrific
appalling
derisible
frightful
horrifying
mortifying
heart-wrenching
malcontent
injured
harmed
with cold feet
lost momentum
sniveling
US
on the verge of tears
in a stew
racked with suffering
in a tizzy
racked with pain
in blue funk
gone to pieces
ill-used
steamed
easily moved
hard done by
in high dudgeon
victimised
UK
victimized
US
bored by
surfeited by
weary of
distressed by
glutted by
surfeited with
jaded with
jaded by
satiated by
in floods of tears
with tears in your eyes
glutted with
pouting
petulant
have had it up to here with
have had enough
have had a basinful of
have had something up to here
glowering
scowling
fractious
mumpish
perverse
pouty
chippy
bad-tempered
grouchy
aloof
satiated
frowning
withdrawn
irritable
mardy
out of humour
uncooperative
ill-tempered
fretful
ornery
obstinate
sourpussed
sulking
querulous
unsociable
stroppy
gruff
mean
surfeited
in a bad mood
sated
having a fit of the sulks
in a mood
in the sulks
in a strop
up to here
not best pleased
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Adjective
▲
Cowardly or weak in character
unmanly
craven
cowardly
spineless
fearful
soft
timid
feeble
timorous
weak
wimpish
yellow
apprehensive
fainthearted
gutless
ignoble
milksoppish
pusillanimous
wimpy
afraid
dishonorable
US
dishonourable
UK
chicken-hearted
lily-livered
limp-wristed
weak-kneed
chicken
spiritless
recreant
chickenhearted
chicken-livered
cowering
scared
weakling
boneless
irresolute
weak-willed
sissy
unheroic
dastardly
hesitant
candy-assed
yellow-bellied
poor-spirited
nerveless
frightened
faint-hearted
milk-livered
frightened of one's own shadow
base
pigeonhearted
effete
frail
characterless
weakened
invertebrate
poltroon
submissive
pathetic
sissified
vacillating
squeamish
pithless
forceless
feckless
emasculate
wishy-washy
milk-and-water
without a will of your own
namby-pamby
afraid of one's shadow
slack-spined
quaking
trembling
diffident
daunted
pigeon-hearted
jumpy
feart
jittery
nervy
easily frightened
half-hearted
easily scared
wet
nervous
spooked
coy
retiring
shy
tentative
funky
ineffectual
shrinking
wussy
ineffective
enervated
weedy
impotent
meek
tremulous
insipid
intimidated
languid
lacking courage
panicky
abject
inept
mousy
unassertive
debilitated
mousey
cowed
shaky
unnerved
daft
vapid
white-livered
useless
limp
tame
jejune
mediocre
listless
sapless
caitiff
fallible
anxious
skittish
slight
dismayed
wavering
sapped
unsubstantial
delicate
enfeebled
wasted
faint
asthenic
tender
softened
prostrate
infirm
prostrated
having cold feet
down-and-out
silly
foolish
drippy
petrified
inadequate
coward
simpering
colourless
UK
colorless
US
mean-spirited
reluctant
niddering
scary
fearsome
poltroonish
startled
terrified
nerdy
epicene
emasculated
indecisive
swishy
snowflake
soppy
afraid of one's own shadow
lame
sheepish
errant
cringey
fickle
passive
imperfect
erring
flawed
resistless
gentle
browbeaten
Milquetoast
capricious
bullied
unassured
faltering
dithering
like a lamb to the slaughter
powerless
undetermined
indeterminate
disorganized
US
corruptible
supine
hemming and hawing
waffling
yielding
unreliable
unsure
undependable
unfit
disorganised
UK
flabby
easily led
sookie
cowhearted
backward
worthless
paper tiger
no guts
running scared
having the willies
persuasible
persuadable
impressionable
compliant
without guts
weak-minded
feeble-minded
changeable
more ❯
Noun
▲
An excessive willingness to serve or please others
servility
obsequiousness
sycophancy
fawning
groveling
US
grovelling
UK
submissiveness
subservience
toadyism
unctuousness
abjection
bootlicking
self-abasement
slavishness
toadying
meanness
oiliness
abjectness
apple-polishing
baseness
cravenness
humility
sliminess
smarminess
arse-licking
ass-kissing
excessive deference
brownnosing
flattery
sucking up
adulation
kowtowing
truckling
sweet talk
cajolery
blandishments
compliments
honeyed words
wheedling
blarney
praise
soft words
ingratiation
coaxing
blandishment
soft soap
false praise
smooth talk
flannel
reverence
fulsomeness
soft-soap
simpering
spiel
currying favour
buttering up
cosying up
adoration
worship
deference
idolization
glorification
puffery
veneration
inveiglement
admiration
exaltation
awe
gratification
worshiping
US
overpraise
applause
commendation
incense
taffy
butter
smarm
worshipping
UK
plaudits
laudation
glozing
guyver
cajolement
smoodging
eyewash
cuddling up
ego massage
charm offensive
lip salve
pats on the back
allurement
enticement
sweet words
ingratiating
crawling
creeping
exaggeration
compliance
bowing and scraping
wonderment
wonder
charm
cobblers
oil
honey
infatuation
marveling
US
a line
pumping up
puff
marvelling
UK
respect
hero-worship
admiring
lionizing
US
lionization
US
idolizing
US
glory
homage
honour
UK
devotion
honor
US
idolatry
eulogies
high regard
tributes
praising
accolades
deification
magnifying
magnification
eulogiums
lionising
UK
lionisation
UK
idolising
UK
hero worship
extravagant flattery
audation
servile flattery
fulsome praise
sweet-talk
arse-kissing
gallantry
flummery
jive
hokum
brown-nosing
encomium
eulogy
flattering
snow
mush
palaver
smoke
approbation
stroke
laud
tribute
weasel words
pretty speech
snow job
fine words
soft sawder
more ❯
Noun
▲
The state in which someone has to accept the control of another person
submission
compliance
obedience
deference
acquiescence
docility
submissiveness
conformity
dutifulness
subservience
yielding
tractability
meekness
biddability
servility
malleability
passivity
resignation
surrender
duteousness
assent
tameness
tractableness
manageability
patience
subordination
subjection
obsequiousness
bowing
humility
unassertiveness
capitulation
obeisance
nonresistance
humbleness
bootlicking
appeasement
capitulating
consent
defeatism
passivism
pliabilty
prostration
recreancy
submitting
non-resistance
giving in
self-abasement
self-effacement
acceptance of one's fate
backing down
compliancy
respect
accordance
conformability
duty
observance
agreement
reverence
amenability
willingness
complaisance
orderliness
quietness
amenableness
biddableness
forbearance
conformance
passiveness
abidance
acceptance
respectfulness
adherence
caving in
lowliness
sufferance
pliability
concession
piety
reluctant agreement
controllability
manipulability
accession
sycophancy
timidity
weakness
fearfulness
keeping
concurrence
discipline
observation
diffidence
throwing in the towel
truce flag
flag of truce
retreat
demureness
observance of the rules
observance of the law
loyalty
faithfulness
fortitude
endurance
conforming
devotion
conceding
concord
relenting
impressionability
allegiance
lack of resistance
stoicism
tolerance
veneration
devoutness
mindfulness
fealty
long-suffering
longanimity
fatalism
servitude
cave in
fear
phlegm
forbearing
inferiority
resignedness
acknowledgement
UK
modesty
patientness
acknowledgment
US
white flag
lack of protest
lack of complaint
acceptance of the inevitable
relegation
dependence
demotion
inferior
reduction
inferior status
inferior position
secondary status
secondary position
receptiveness
openness
susceptibility
pliancy
suggestibility
vulnerability
accommodativeness
receptivity
agreeableness
ingenuousness
responsiveness
amiability
good-naturedness
obligingness
sensitivity
cooperation
impressionableness
readiness
cooperativeness
disposition
peacefulness
gentleness
inclination
gameness
open-mindedness
volition
vulnerableness
susceptibleness
ductility
accessibility
docileness
courtesy
kindness
friendliness
politeness
persuadability
perviousness
suggestibleness
credulity
credulousness
flexibility
consensualness
reactivity
reactiveness
gullibility
flattery
preparedness
perceptivity
perceptiveness
enthusiasm
desire
will
unctuousness
alacrity
eagerness
smarminess
goodwill
wish
motivation
keenness
sweet talk
favour
UK
favor
US
zeal
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to react in fear or apprehension
shrinking
recoiling
flinching
blenching
quailing
shying
cowering
wincing
crouching
dodging
ducking
blanching
squinching
starting
getting cold feet
drawing back
pulling back
shying away
shuddering
quaking
faltering
wavering
balking
US
baulking
UK
backing away
trembling
swerving
shaking
shivering
shrinking back
shirking
backing off
retreating
groveling
US
grovelling
UK
shrinking away
quivering
demurring
squirming
reeling
jumping
withdrawing
jumping back
taking fright
showing fear
falling back
recoiling from
flinching from
jerking
hesitating
jolting
quavering
bucking
drooping
fainting
grimacing
shaking with fear
twitching
having cold feet
turning
jibbing
scowling
gasping
pulling a face
making a face
reacting
refusing
retiring
slinking
hanging back
springing back
jerking back
starting back
baulking at
hiding
evading
avoiding
ricocheting
ricochetting
eschewing
rebelling
feeling repugnance
shrinking from
showing repugnance
escaping
eluding
shunning
pulling back from
shying away from
quailing at
turning away
boggling at
fighting shy of
jibbing at
more ❯
“Ideal as a watchdog, this dog will neither be aggressive nor
cringe
with fear when accosting a stranger.”
Verb
▲
Present participle for to experience an inward shiver of embarrassment or disgust
squirming
blushing
wincing
flushing
writhing
going red
feeling ashamed
feeling embarrassed
feeling mortified
feeling sheepish
suffering embarrassment
wincing with embarrassment
“She stepped into Jeremy's room, and the smell of stale alcohol made her
cringe
in disgust.”
Verb
▲
Present participle for to act in a subservient or submissive manner
grovelling
UK
groveling
US
crawling
kowtowing
cowering
fawning
toadying
truckling
bending
bowing
kneeling
quailing
stooping
wooing
blandishing
bootlicking
creeping
crouching
flattering
soft-soaping
bowing and scraping
brown-nosing
pandering to
sweet-talking
curry favoring with
curry favouring with
getting round
dancing attendance on
ingratiating oneself with
paying court to
sucking up to
falling all over
eating dirt
making up to
apple-polishing
buttering up
sucking up
playing up to
pandering
brownnosing
licking someone's boots
courting
fussing
fawning on
rubbing up the right way
prostrating oneself
cajoling
stroking
massaging
oiling
humbling oneself
abasing yourself
creeping to
truckling to
honeying up
paying court
laying it on
kissing one's feet
falling on one's knees
submitting
yielding
deferring
prostrating
giving in
kissing-up
behaving obsequiously
kowtowing to
toadying to
crawling to
currying favour
curry favoring
abasing oneself before
knuckling under
smoodging to
scratching one's back
abasing oneself to
catering to
keeping someone sweet
eating crow
demeaning oneself to
bowing and scrape to
conceding
folding
giving way
bending the knee
smoodging
making up
lying down and rolling over
saying uncle
going along with
caving in
toing the mark
eulogizing
US
praising
cultivating
kisses up to
seeking the favour of
ingratiating yourself
trying to get on the good side of
eating humble pie
humiliating yourself
prostrating oneself before
fawning over
trying to win over
cringing before
grovelling before
surrendering
smarming around
snowing
bowing and scrape before
inviting
laying it on with a trowel
scraping
jollying
singing the praises of
falling over oneself for
laying it on thick
praising to the skies
cottoning
debasing
slavering
praising to excess
eulogising
UK
buddying up
abasing
caving in to
bowing down
falling at feet
kissing the feet of
prostrating oneself to
grovelling to
wheedling
humoring
US
humouring
UK
sniveling
US
revering
pampering
imploring
snivelling
UK
genuflecting
showing respect for
making much of
bowing to
deferring to
demeaning oneself
adulating
blarneying
honeying
overpraising
glorifying
hero-worshipping
charming
flannelling
flanneling
panegyrizing
building up
spreading it on
rubbing the right way
waxing lyrical about
expressing admiration for
complimenting excessively
beslavering
complimenting
puffing
belauding
commending
lauding
softening
paying blandishments to
saying nice things about
curtsying
bobbing a curtsy
making a leg
cozying up
getting in with
respecting
kissing someone's feet
inveigling
smooth-talking
admiring
working over
working on
paying tribute to
sweetening up
elevating
worshipping
UK
lionizing
US
worshiping
US
adoring
gushing
lionising
UK
putting on a pedestal
more ❯
“The poor puppy would
cringe
when his master raised the rolled-up newspaper.”
Verb
▲
Present participle for to crouch close to the ground
squatting
crouching
hunching
stooping
scooching
bowing
bending
huddling
couching
cowering
scrunching
squinching
hunkering
sitting
perching
roosting
settling
hunkering down
bending down
crouching down
bobbing down
ducking down
sitting on your haunches
sitting on your heels
ducking
bowing down
squating down
kneeling
hunching down
shrinking
stooping down
leaning
inclining
bending over
leaning over
leaning forward
leaning down
bending forward
dipping
groveling
US
wincing
quailing
grovelling
UK
quatting
kneeling down
hunching over
scrooching down
walking with a stoop
bobbing
nodding
lowering
genuflecting
curtsying
dropping a curtsy
bending the knee
dropping
inclining your body
making a bow
crawling
getting on all fours
curtseying
huddling up
curling up
arching
greeting
declining
arcking
arcing
prostrating oneself
kowtowing
drooping
salaaming
taking a knee
inclining the head
doing obeisance
making obeisance
making an obeisance
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for submit to or acknowledge the merit of
deferring
submitting
yielding
acceding
acquiescing
bowing
capitulating
surrendering
truckling
giving way
honoring
US
honouring
UK
respecting
accepting
accommodating
adapting
adjusting
admitting
agreeing
agreeing with
assenting
buckling
caving
complying
complying with
conceding
fawning
giving in
knuckling
knuckling under
kowtowing
obeying
succumbing
bowing to
giving in to
Verb
▲
Present participle for to anticipate with great apprehension or fear
dreading
fearing
apprehending
misdoubting
shuddering
trembling
shrinking from
cowering at
cringing from
quaking at
shuddering at
trembling at
worrying about
feeling apprehensive about
flinching from
having forebodings about
quailing from
anticipating with horror
cringing at the thought of
having cold feet
having cold feet about
shuddering to think about
trembling to think about
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