Definitions For Cringing

adjective

  • Totally submissive

verb

  • To feel disgust or embarrassment and often to show this feeling by a movement of your face or body
  • To make a sudden movement from fear of being hit or hurt

Is Cringing a Scrabble Word?

Words With Friends YES
Scrabble US YES
Scrabble UK YES
English International (SOWPODS) YES
Scrabble Global YES
Enable1 Dictionary YES

Points in Different Games

Scrabble
12
Words with Friends
17

The word Cringing is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 17 points in Words with Friends

Examples of Cringing in a Sentence

  • Many English teachers cringe when their students use the word “ain't.”
  • I always cringe when I hear that song.
  • Just the thought of eating broccoli makes me cringe.

Synonyms for Cringing

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