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cringes

/ˈkɹɪnd͡ʒɪz/

cringes is the plural of cringe.

cringes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of cringe.

Meaning of cringe

Noun

cringe (countable and uncountable, plural cringes)

  1. (countable) A gesture or posture of cringing (recoiling or shrinking).
    • He glanced with a cringe at the mess on his desk.
  2. (countable, figuratively) An act or disposition of servile obeisance.
  3. (UK, countable, dialectal) A crick (“painful muscular cramp or spasm of some part of the body”).
  4. (derogatory, slang, uncountable) Things, particularly online content, which would cause an onlooker to cringe from secondhand embarrassment.
    • Bro... you just posted cringe

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Phrases with cringes

Questions about cringes

What is cringes the plural of?
Cringes is the plural of cringe.
How do you pronounce cringes?
Cringes is pronounced /ˈkɹɪnd͡ʒɪz/.

Words near cringes in the dictionary

  1. cringeness
  2. cringeometer
  3. cringeometers
  4. cringer
  5. cringers
  6. cringes
  7. cringesome
  8. cringest
  9. cringetastic
  10. cringeth
  11. cringeworthier

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cringes (page history and authors); cringe (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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