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 Cringings a Scrabble Word?

Words With Friends NO
Scrabble US NO
Scrabble UK YES
English International (SOWPODS) YES
Scrabble Global YES
Enable1 Dictionary NO

Points in Different Games

Scrabble
13
Words with Friends
18

The word Cringing is worth 13 points in Scrabble and 18 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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