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What does cringe mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word cringe? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. A posture or gesture of shrinking or recoiling.
  2. (dialect) A crick.
  3. An embarrassing event, item or behaviour which causes an onlooker to cringe.
Verb
  1. (dated, intransitive) To bow or crouch in servility.
  2. (intransitive) To shrink, cower, tense or recoil, as in fear, disgust or embarrassment.
  3. (transitive, obsolete) To contract; to draw together; to cause to shrink or wrinkle; to distort.
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