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cringe

C1 verb

cringe /ˈkɹɪnd͡ʒ/ nghĩa là co rúm, nhăn mặt

Các nghĩa

  1. co rúm, nhăn mặt

    To cower, flinch, recoil, shrink, or tense, as in disgust, embarrassment, or fear.

    intransitive

    He cringed as the bird collided with the window.

  2. thấy ngượng ngùng, kinh tởm

    To experience an inward feeling of disgust, embarrassment, or fear; (by extension) to feel very embarrassed.

    figuratively · intransitive

  3. cúi mình, khúm núm

    To bow or crouch in servility.

    intransitive

    Lady, receive a tributary lay / From one who cringeth not to titled state / Conventional, and lacking will to prate / Of comeliness— [...]

    Humbly thou cringest that with nod of head / Couldst fling me seaward from they steepest cliffs!

    Leclère was bent on the coming of the day when Bâtard [a dog] should wilt in spirit and cringe and whimper at his feet.

  4. khúm núm, quỵ lụy

    To act in an obsequious or servile manner.

    figuratively · intransitive

    Here the beggar accoſts me; had I appeared as himſelf, he had aſked nothing: but now he uncovers, he cringeth, he cries for relief.

    Their [the clergy's] chief business, during a quarter of a century, had been to teach the people to cringe and the prince to domineer.

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