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Adjective cringing has 1 sense
cringing, groveling, grovelling, wormlike, wormy - totally submissiveAntonym:  domineering (indirect, via submissive)
 
 
Verb cringe has 2 senses
flinch, squinch, funk, cringe, shrink, wince, recoil, quail - draw back, as with fear or pain; "she flinched when they showed the slaughtering of the calf"--1 is one way to move
 Sample sentences:
 Somebody ----s
 Somebody ----s PP
 
fawn, crawl, creep, cringe, cower, grovel - show submission or fear--2 is one way to bend, flex
 Sample sentence:
 Somebody ----s PP
 
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