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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