Adjective cringing has 1 sense
- cringing, groveling, grovelling, wormlike, wormy - totally submissive
Antonym: domineering (indirect, via submissive)
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Verb cringe has 2 senses
- flinch, squinch, funk, cringe, shrink, wince, recoil, quail - draw back, as with fear or pain; "she flinched when they showed the slaughtering of the calf"
--1 is one way to move
Sample sentences:
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Somebody ----s PP
- fawn, crawl, creep, cringe, cower, grovel - show submission or fear
--2 is one way to bend, flex
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s PP
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