Meanings (ES + gloss)
grima
A gesture or posture of cringing (recoiling or shrinking).
He glanced with a cringe at the mess on his desk.
alipori • grima • vergüenza ajena
Things, particularly online content, which would cause an onlooker to cringe from secondhand embarrassment.
Bro... you just posted cringe
There was so much cringe in that episode!
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Word forms
Meanings (ES + gloss)
contraerse • encogerse
To cower, flinch, recoil, shrink, or tense, as in disgust, embarrassment, or fear.
And besides all this, there was a certain lofty bearing about the Pagan, which even his uncouthness could not altogether maim. He looked like a man who had never cringed and never…
He cringed as the bird collided with the window.
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