Crossword-Solution: CRINGE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Cringe | v. t. | To draw one's self together as in fear or servility; to bend or crouch with base humility; to wince; hence; to make court in a degrading manner; to fawn. |
| Cringe | v. t. | To contract; to draw together; to cause to shrink or wrinkle; to distort. |
| Cringe | n. | Servile civility; fawning; a shrinking or bowing, as in fear or servility. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETEAR
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greedy person
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Sentences with CRINGE (5)
The Cray Y-MP is about as big and bad a computer as money can buy, and despite Steve's well known skills, the head of the Super Computing Department couldn't help but cringe when Steve leaned his surf board against the helium cooled memory banks of the twelve million dollar computer.
Always outmatched when encountering any female who did not smile, cringe, grovel or otherwise conform to his `typing', Henry turned away from her and fumed his way to the hall phone booth.
Who all around me to-day, Bluster, or cringe, and make life Hideous, and arid, and vile, But souls temper’d with fire, Fervent, heroic, and good; Helpers, and friends of mankind.” --ARNOLD.
But soon, with a queer, quick frown, he looked at me, And I looked hard at him; and there we gazed With a strained shame that made us cringe and wince: Then, with a wordless clogged apology That sounded half confused and half amazed, He dodged, -- and I have never seen him since.
When he saw Rob he gave a shout of rage and drew his knife, but one motion of the electric tube made him cringe and slip away to the cabin, where he remained out of danger.
Quotes with CRINGE (3)
Okay. Then... I can talk. Ask me something.""Okay." He laughs shakily in my ear. "Why is your heart racing Tris?" I cringe and say, "Well, I... I barely know you. I barely know you and I'm crammed up against you in a box, Four, what do you think?"..." Maybe you were cut out for Candor," he says, "because you're a terrible liar.
Of course, everyone's parents are embarrassing. It goes with the territory. The nature of parents is to embarrass merely by existing, just as it is the nature of children of a certain age to cringe with embarrassment, shame, and mortification should their parents so much as speak to them on the street.
When I became convinced that the Universe is natural — that all the ghosts and gods are myths, there entered into my brain, into my soul, into every drop of my blood, the sense, the feeling, the joy of freedom. The walls of my prison crumbled and fell, the dungeon was flooded with light and all the bolts, and bars, and manacles became dust. I was no longer a servant, a serf or a slave. There was for me no master in all the wide world -- not even in infinite space. I was free …
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 76 times in crossword archives (1968–2025).