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• v  draw back, as with fear or pain
• v  show submission or fear
• s  totally submissive

• James Watson remembers cringing when his colleague Francis Crick announced to regulars at the Eagle, a pub in Cambridge, England, that they had discovered "the secret of life.
• In the moments before he died, Mohammed told his cringing father, "Don't worry, Daddy, the ambulance will come and rescue us.
• Jarring new examples emerged: the same female soldier, holding a leash wrapped around the neck of a naked prisoner cringing at her feet.

• flinch
• squinch
• funk
• cringe
• shrink
• wince
• recoil
• quail
• fawn
• crawl
• creep
• cower
• grovel
• groveling
• grovelling
• wormlike
• wormy

News & Articles

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• Ohio gas prices near $4, above national average
  Some Ohio drivers are cringing as the price for a gallon of gas remains near the $4 mark. The state average for a gallon of regular gas was $3.92 in Monday's survey from auto club AAA, the Oil Price Information ...
  June 10, 2013 - Associated Press via Yahoo! News
• Gas prices near $4 per gallon in Ohio
  Some Ohio drivers are cringing as the price for a gallon of gas remains near the $4 mark.  
  June 10, 2013 - WLWT-TV Cincinnati
• Ohio gas prices remain near $4 a gallon
  COLUMBUS — Some Ohio drivers are cringing as the price for a gallon of gas remains near the $4 mark. The state average for a gallon of regular gas was $3.92 in today’s survey from auto club AAA, the Oil Price Information Service and Wright Express. That’s up 9 cents compared with the cost last [...] The post Ohio gas prices remain near $4 a gallon appeared first on Chronicle-Telegram . Click ...
  June 10, 2013 - The Chronicle-Telegram

Quotes

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• Ron Ramsey in Politico
  I've got a tableful of advisers sitting over there and they'll probably start cringing right about now when I start talking about some of this stuff right here,said Ramsey, in response to a question. "I'm going to tell you something. I...
• Chace Crawford in MyParkMag
  Speaking earlier this year, Chace explained: "Are the racy undertones a weight on my conscience? Well, yes, I think they are. I come from a moral background, and I can see the power of the show, and imagine my old school teachers cringing, or my...
• Scott Linebrink in Southtown Star
  I feel it, and I'm definitely up for the challenge,Linebrink said. "This is a fun time, too. I'm not cringing in the corner, thinking about the pressure. I relish that, and a lot of guys pitching in the back end of the game, when you...